You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Recognize the remarkable individuals in your life who help you envision a world far beyond yourself.

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.

As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.