Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.

If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.

Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!

There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.