Jim Quotes

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

Every morning I hear the alarm, it's like "BEEP BEEP BEEP" For second I'm like, "I could get used to that, just dream I'm in a techno club, or something."

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

The high road's the only road I know. Let's keep on that way.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

I had a three year relationship end. Ever have somebody just freak out on you in a relationship? Things are going great. After three years she wants to run out and find a guy that doesn't hit her.

Everything changes when you change.

Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!