Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

My goal is always, how do you get better?

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

Surround yourself only with those who lift you higher.

I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.