The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I "step aside" as CEO of GM, and so I have.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.

Ford, as I understand it, had done away with the concept of regional management, and now they've re-introduced that in Europe, so it's kind of a two-way street.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

The Divine Voice is not always expressed in words. It is made known as a heart-consciousmess

Always recompense kindness with hearty love and gratitude.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

More people write poetry than read it.

I used to have a road-rage issue.

Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.