No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.

Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.