How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.

Somebody told me when Abe Lincoln was a young man, studying by firelight, he said, "I will work hard. I will prepare myself. And my time will come." And you know, that's exactly what I said about myself and football - What do you think? Were Abe and I both just lucky ducks?

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

How can you possibly be sympathetic to every fool on the planet? Just the other day, I heard a man whining about his hopeless love of cross-dressing. Call me unenlightened, but I started to laugh.

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.