To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.