“So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.”

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

It’s said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others’s successes.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

I didn’t get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I’m planning to work hard at it.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.

We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.

That’s in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn’t work, but it’s very hard to predict what will work.

After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.

We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and that is going to take a tremendous amount of sheer hard work. The only force which can break down those barriers is the force of love, the force of truth, soul-force.