We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

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.

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.

Before you can decide on your brand fonts, colors or imagery, let alone your messaging, you need to know who you're trying to attract first.

She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.

Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.

I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

I'm crazy, I'm nuts. Just the way my brain works. I'm not normal. I think differently.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.