as they mock you due to your loss, you rise back strong and agile to win

Unless you are ready to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, you'll forever be in the control of things you can't give up.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, knowing their stories.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.