"I want for our underclassmen to look at what hard work does and how it pays off."

"Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

"Our guys have worked hard this spring and we have had good competition at a lot of positions. I have been pleased with our effort most of the time, yet I know we need to get better in a lot of areas, too. I am looking forward to who comes out ready to play and compete on Saturday, and who plays with toughness and who plays fast."

"Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you."

"Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done."

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."

"We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."

"You can't get work without working."

"I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value."

"When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself."

"The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone."

"I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised."

"The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming."

"I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there."

"Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible."

"One hand has surely worked throughout the universe."

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen"

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."

"In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence"

"...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear."

"Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"I am but little disposed to put things in writing. One almost always regrets doing so."