It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

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.

Some people are so much heaven to the square inch that life is simply hell, when she leaves you in order to go south for the winter. (Yes, women are people too, sometimes even threee.)

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

I see great things in baseball.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!