If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.