In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

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.

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.