Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

Where the mind goes, everything follows.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

What we call life is only talk of nature.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.

The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.