You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

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.

Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.

One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

Art is a way of possessing destiny.

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.