To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not...

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing...

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing...

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I...

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.

Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there - you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.