Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

As boys get older, they can't let on that it's cool to meet me.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.