He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

My son gave me a nice bottle of cologne - Eau de Owe.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.