“The big thing is that you know what you want.”

Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to your service

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Don’t take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you – be nice to them. Don’t sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don’t have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

Ask yourself every morning, ‘how can I increase my service today?’

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Whenever we’re afraid, it’s because we don’t know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can’t get every guy ready every night, you’re going to struggle.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.

May your cold nights die a warm death.

Last night (we exchanged so much DNA) we became each other.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

Night falls, and the wounds we try to pretend we don’t have begin to haunt us.

It’s a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven’t manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.