I believe there's only one regulation in life that works: failure.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

I try to avoid political ties.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

Identify the purpose of your life and destination and work out a plan to achieve your goal

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.