H is for Habit, winners make a habit of doing the things losers don't want to do.

I is for Integrity, be honest with yourself and others.

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

Think outside the square. Think for yourself don't just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines.

Z is for Zany! Master the Zany habit of thinking backwards. it will help you become a really great thinker!

X is for X-mas Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, then all your Christmases can come at once!

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

Dream, think BIG live the life of your dreams.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

Getting reelected is the most important job every senator thinks he has.

Without warning as a whirlwind swoops on an oak Love shakes my heart

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.