In times of great chaos, people tend to follow a man with a plan.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.