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.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.