When you hire someone to do tasks that you dislike, that employee really has you over a barrel,

When he's making his pitches, nobody's getting a good, good swing and they're not hitting the ball on the barrel, ... I mean, he's beating them in, he's throwing his cutters and curveballs, and throwing the first pitch for strikes. It's awesome.

Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.

Young love is when you love someone because of what they do right. Mature love is when you love someone in spite of what they do wrong.

I would say we'll probably see $70 (a barrel) again before we see $50 or $55 even. When the dust settles, we'll see that while Rita did not match Katrina in terms of impact, it significantly exceeded what's been reported.

I do not like work even when someone else does it