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

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.

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.

I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

To the immature, other people are not real.

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

I would like to do some musicals.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.