Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

So much energy comes out of concerts sometimes, especially good ones that are really moving. And that energy, no matter how great the show is, it dissipates within two weeks or a month.

An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space.