Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

God is bigger than people think.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.