Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.

Our destiny is greatness and we must return to its fulfillment.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

For GOD is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.