I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.