As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I focus on my own job.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.