Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

Asking for money can be especially intimidating.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.