You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

Never allow your dreams to die. Hold on tightly to your most cherished dreams.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.