Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

The world needs a strong America.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Love brings you closer to yourself

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.