People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

I don't really love computers.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Death is the mother of forms.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.