A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Music is a second language to my heart.

The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.