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.

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.

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.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people's hearts.

My mother dressed me always very conservatively.