People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.

No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word ‘love’ in it.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.