Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Listen to the arts of kids, their hands when tied have wings.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance.

Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.