Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

Character is contagious.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

The key is to make it.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.