Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

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.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

The world is not a great place because racist people come with a race type of agenda, and it don't make the world great, it makes it worst than ever.

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.

Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.