If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.

Nothing is personal. Everything is play.

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Life can become once more a grand adventure if we will surrender it to god. He brings one adventure to an end, only to open another to us. With him we must be ready for anything.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.