I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.

Facts in books statistics in encyclopedias the ability to use them in men's heads.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

Fish from all over the world, from deep in the sea, wind up in countries from Germany to Japan. That is just crazy.