I want to go down as a winner.
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it. there.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children. The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'. They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.