Ego is the greatest killer of one's potential

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

At a show, I'll look out from the stage and see a woman with a pearl necklace next to a guy in a Grateful Dead T-shirt next to a young kid with his mom. It's fun to see them all together.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are‚ that's a goddess.

The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.

I've never been one to tear the social fabric.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.