I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

God is bigger than people think.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.

I respect coaches I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

Food additives are far safer in actual use than the basic natural food themselves.

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body is changed by these really positive thoughts.

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.