When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.

Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron) Really? (Jaden) Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar)

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.