The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers.

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.

Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.

When all else fails...try smoking a good cigar and have a stiff drink. If that doesn't work...have another.

I am Butler. Anything I say sounds scary.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.