Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.

With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

A library is also a place where love begins.

I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.