"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy."

"We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government."

"You've got to demand the truth from yourself."

"When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines."

"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

"The seeds of triumph are sown in the quiet mornings when no one is watching. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."