So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

An old novel has a history of its own.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

Foreign meddling elections is bad whether it's done by the Russians here or by us or anyplace else.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.