I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

Be a gentleman farmer.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.

Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.

You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.