Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Live in the now

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Goodnight moon. Sweet dreams. Smile kindly upon this little blue gum ball of us while we sleep.

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

Marco Rubio is really to the right of Chris Christie, when Jeb Bush and John Kasich and he hasn't been able to pull away from them.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.