When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100 000 in one day in a posh boutique.

For me the best times are always going to be the most intense the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way even though it might be temporarily unpopular is the best approach.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us but we can do this. Together we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I have lost my seven best friends which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship took it from me sent me another.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.