I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

Only the living souls can praise the living God.

Even if I never get to see the light of heaven, it will still be worth my sacrifice as long as I save you.

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Every day people say you got to move on with your life. You have to move on. And you just can't.

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.