My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We become what we repeatedly do.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value - more often than not, comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

I don't wear a lot of makeup in real life and I try to take care of my skin. I clean it, I moisturize it, but mainly I just try to drink a ton of water.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.