No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.

Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

No one goes through life with a whole heart.

You," she managed to say hoarsely," are a very bad kitty cat.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

Despair swallows up cowardice.