I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Coffee goes great with sudden death.

New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...

Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.

Janie. Does not like. To be called. Buffy.

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

'cause haters wanna shoot, everything that shine So I'm prepared, to lock and load my rhymes

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Better a bad excuse, than none at all.