Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get.

I still think most of my success came from the audience's reaction to me. It's weird when that happens but a lot of it came from what I did inside the ring.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

You might be a redneck if you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

The only way to stay in fashion is never be in. If you are never in fashion, you are never out of fashion.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.