It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Make the best of what you have today.Today is the day.The best is here: now, it is always be at the present moment.

Inspiration does not come like a blot nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

Only death can seperate me from the wrestling world.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?

[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.