Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.

Of all cities in the United States I have seen, San Francisco is the most beautiful.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.