We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Never ponder to give today all that you have, if you hope for tomorrow to give you all that you need.

Love as is love is the oxygen of life.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

If nostalgia holds you hostage, the ransom is the present.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

Cloud Foundry is not exciting. What's exciting is what you can do with Cloud Foundry.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.