All our businesses comprise of the BEST people money can buy. My policy is hire the best and pay them well

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself.

You don't smile when you're holding on. You smile when you're letting go.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.