Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

No," I said. "I'm not safe, Belen. Who is going to tear Kerrick's arm off if he hits me again? Come on," I urged. "Stay with us".

When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.