Listen to your conscience. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life.

Moral character is the DNA of success and happiness.

When you master the basics, and execute them well, there’s no need to worry about the score.

Courageous people know that saying ‘no’ to one idea enables them to say ‘yes’ to another.

Real leaders focus resources in areas that provide the greatest opportunity rather than making across-the-board decisions.

Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.

Courageous people know that old ways of doing things shouldn’t stand in the way of a better solution.

Courageous people run toward the problem rather than away from it.

When you compete against yourself, you both win.

Sadly, some folks don’t live . . . they merely exist.

Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

I think of language as our first music.