Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true.