My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.
Confidence is the public face of competence.
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
The President, who really had been mostly managing his one-man Barack Obama narrative and journey his whole life, without executive experience, certainly - he's not a governor. Some governors, of course, they have experience in executing power, which is something fairly unique, actually, in government. And he has, neither, a set of nourishing experiences.
It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.
I'm a kid from Minnesota. I like seeing movie stars! So I'm there at The ivy, I've got my shrimp, Eddie Murphy comes in with his gang. I said to the waiter, as any good Midwestern boy would, "Hey, put Eddie's check on my American Express card, but don't tell him that I did it 'til I'm gone. " Next day I got a call from manager who said, "Eddie's doing a movie, he was very impressed that you bought him lunch. " So remember: sometimes buying people lunch can really work out well for you.
Those who don't try never look foolish.
Invited or not, God is present.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.