Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go?" Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.

An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

For many wealthy people, giving a tenth is a way of robbing God. Their tithe becomes a tip.

Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.

Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents.

The downside to celebrity is when you make it a 24 hour thing. I think celebrity is about turning it on and turning it off.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Just do a thing and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.