Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.

They say if the warming trend continues, by 2015 Hillary Clinton might actually thaw out.

I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.