Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.

Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.

Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

The measure of your character and mental toughness is the space between what you are doing and what you could be doing

You are going to get over it sooner or later so get over it now.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

No one can ever foresee the future Sonya. You can only judge what's up ahead based on the conditions of the present. Remember that.

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin

Soulfully partake of life, not how you envisage – but, in a manner that was ordained.

The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

I would exchange everything for one child of my own.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.