Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Take your finger out of your nose, Miss Steal.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

But [Coca-Cola] was also genuinely welcomed by the servicemen in far-flung military bases: Coca-Cola reminded them of home and helped to maintain morale.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.