Your college education is a key moment in life.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

[Hillary Clinton] is typical politician. All talk, no action.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

Songs lay a foundation of who I am going to be forever.

I don't exercise. I'm skinny fat. I worry about being too skinny. You should see my brother, he's, like, emaciated. We both just happen to be really skinny.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.