Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought, , not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.