Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

Things never go smoothly.

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

I work out every day, and I eat 1,200 calories. Heres the truth - like Ive said to everybody, Every diet works if you follow the diet.

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.