I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for that's been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.
One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart.
One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.
What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
I've been on plenty of things that never took off, and I've been on one thing, 'The West Wing,' that was a big hit, but took off well before I was on it.
Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.
I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I've had some treatment - and I've improved.
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
