If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.