I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion.

Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. “Dammit!” he says again with more feeling. “Why does stuff like this keep happening?”“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, ” Rob says, smirking.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned

I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Thus every dog at last will have his day - He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow; The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.