In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

You can buy a person’s time and work, but you cannot buy their enthusiasm, effort, and passion. Those are earned, and as such, given freely.

Suffering is not a consequence, it is about permission.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.

I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.