You build a successful life a day at a time.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

There is no comparison: The money is over here and the love is over there. But the love is the most important thing.

Things never are as bad as they seem.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.

We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.