“It’s easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.”

Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

I’d rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie.

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I’ll have a witty and blistering retort! You’ll be devastated THEN

A man’s worth can be judged through those who dislike him.

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

The music is first and foremost everything – no egos, no attitude, nothing – it’s about the music.

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.