If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

He's as old as some trees.

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Proper names are rigid designators.