Banking on success is to spur personal growth.

Those who win are those who think they can.

Iterate. Iterate Iterate.

You can't avoid success if you disown your fear.

Failure is inevitable, success is optional.

The uber successful are those who breed success in others.

Obstacles are a measure of the intensity of your passion.

Excellence never seeks excuses.

If they aren't laughing at your goals, you are not dreaming big enough.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.

Look for the love, you will find the beauty.

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

I usually need to sit with pain a while. Really feel it. Then I need to talk it out. Luckily, I am surrounded by wonderful listeners who haven't told me to shut up yet.

First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.