If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the cheques.

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy tobe motivated.

I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.