“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.”

Young people need models, not critics.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.

I am honestly not sure, if I am more than rainbow, or the storm.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, ‘Oh man, this is the stuff.’ It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.