The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.