The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Every year I volunteer at a hospital on Thanksgiving, deep-frying turkeys in the children's burn unit. I do it just to see the looks on their little "faces."

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.

It has been so long since Liverpool won the title, I was a 12-year-old Everton fan the last time it happened.

A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of spiritual “truth.”

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me