“You don’t wake up one day and discover you’re a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.”

The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn’t just happen.

You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

I felt like I played in a very rough football game with no hitting above the waist.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game?

Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

At the end of the day, that’s our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.