The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.

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.

Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”He winces. “We didn’t even get a first chance.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

There's nothing better than online shopping in your PJ's with a glass of wine with the kids asleep!

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.

The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.

I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.