A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Look At Only The Reality Because Reality Is Better Than Fantasy

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

How can I turn from Africa and live?

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.