I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what they choose.

Popularity is not leadership.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Have character, but don't be a character.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

What we long for, we shall possess.

There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.

And I know how he feels–it’s so good it hurts.