Use your past as one of your mentors.

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.

Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it.

My father had a country store and then later, when I was 10 or 12, sold it and bought a farm equipment dealership in nearby Camden.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.