How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.

Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.

Talent is truth on display.

Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it.

A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.

I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

We all got dreams and we all star reaching

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

I may not have hands to hold my wife’s hands, but I don’t need hands to hold her heart. That’s what I’m gonna hold.

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.