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

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?

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.

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?

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.

Darkness cannot survive in light, but a light can shine in the dark!

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.