Inches make champions.

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.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.

Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and they enjoy it.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth culture.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.