What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

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.

Isn't it funny that they say most girls have daddy issues, when really, every dude does?

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.