Character is contagious.

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.

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.

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody else.I learned how to be cold and numb.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.