The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

I cashed my first check in the NFL at a cashing joint-uh, I think they laughed at me.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.