Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

The church is the gym of the soul.

I keep trying to tell people. I said, at 40, 45, you're at that crossroads. You really are there. And it's not like you can have gain without pain, but this is it. The days are - like when I wrote this whole thing about, in the beginning of my first magazine. I said, "If you live to be 75 years old, that's 3,900 weekends. That's it."

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.