The price of greatness is responsibility.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Never mistake motion for action.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

To create something you must be something.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I always have to be writing.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.