You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

You can always be a little bit better.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

I do want you. More than my next breath.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.

It's not the worst thing in the world to look different from everyone else.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.