Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

I was and still am happier than a pig in slop.

I am now in control of all things.

What will happen will happen, what won't happen won't happen.

Well? Is it true? Did she?""Did she what?""You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?

Maybe magic wasn’t the magic thing, when you grew up with it

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?