If I am through learning, I am through.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.

I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.".

There is always something missing that torments me.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.