If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams.

Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.