No weapon formed against me shall prosper

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

Let your name be worth more than your bank account

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.