Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart.

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Cancer' is such a frightening word.