Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

You might be a redneck if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.

The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

I love going to movies.

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.