The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.