The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.

Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever.