Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.