Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment.

Character is contagious.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

You are never wrong doing the right thing.

My meanness has an ego too, often bigger than my own.

The days we shared I alone would remember now.I suddenly felt less real.

I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.

Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.