What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.

A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?