Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

We’ve been in all the big games, we’ve been in small games, and we’ve treated them all the same and I think that mentality is what’s helped us get to the point where we are now.

Do not let the transient bitterness of the journey steal happiness from your life.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes...sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

He who strays discovers new paths.