If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

Heroism isn't a one time thing: Live Heroically.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.