My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get...

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new...

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our family culture. Everyone in our family has found some way and capacity to serve. You don't...

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

You don't want your rivals at the same level as you, or with the same amount of trophies as you.

Life gets busy and we choose the path of least resistance when it comes to bringing up our children.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from...

We named the book 'Extreme Ownership' because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of...

When I have these negative thoughts and feelings, I like to dig into them because I like to get under them and see what's in there.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

When I was in high school, I played defense and also averaged about 20 rebounds a game.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Anybody can have a dip in form.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.