I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.