In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.