Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

Clarity affords focus.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Example is leadership.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.