Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.