The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure.It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

The most successful operations are those where the animals thrive, the land flourishes, and the people prosper.

The bond market is the ultimate judge of value.

Each of us is the weaver of our own destiny, though sometimes we cannot choose the threads in our hands.

The novel is not a genre, but a form of thought.

I'm not a politician, I'm just a person who cares.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard；it's the only way I can get some release.