Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.