"I really try hard to keep a good bead on the pulse of the team. Am I pushing the right buttons? When do I need to be harder on them? When do I need to have a little more fun with them? It's all about timing. The more I can do that the better chance we have for these guys to be hitting on all cylinders and reach their potential."

“Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam

“More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.”

Source : "Regulating Secondhand Smoke" by Len Lichtenfeld, abcnews.go.com. January 31, 2007.

“Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.”

“Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.”

“Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.”

“To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.”

“Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”