You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield

I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels

If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.