"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."

"I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way."

"If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture."

"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."