We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.

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.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.