“I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.”

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.

One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

Peace of Mind? Don’t leave home (or go home) without it.

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

I’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

You’re not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I’m trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.

In nearly all cases where machines have been downed, it was during a fight which had been very short, and the successful burst of fire had occurred within the space of a minute after the beginning of actual hostilities.

And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.