Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today.

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?

I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.

Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.

Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

You speak so feelingly and so manfully, Charles Darnay

Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.

Options are good. Keeps people choosing.

Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.