I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

I said all along that God is in control.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.

Sometimes I'm in a mood like a Maths problem such as "If you have 4 pencils and 7 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof? Purple, because aliens don't wear hats".

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

I am now reading Cooper's Naval History which I find very interesting.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.