Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

Well, you know, my wife and I have eight children. We have now 19 grandchildren.

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.