Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

I've always been more interested in the audience than I have in the plays. I like that idea of all those people sitting in the dark together. It's kind of fun.

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.