Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best.

Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.

I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.

She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go.

In pursuing a ‘way, ’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No furniture, no light fittings, no carpet, no bodies. Not a single body. Nothing but the million ducks, the three million ducklings and a window.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.