What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Popularity is not leadership.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

Have character, but don't be a character.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Jump or stay in the boat.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

John McEnroe has hair like badly turned broccoli.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.