you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.