I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

You can always be a little bit better.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.