Young people need models, not critics.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

If a society does not value love and kindness, that society has no value.

Realization hits you several times until you can't get up.

Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

The highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.