In education, parody is obsolete.
I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.
Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.
I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.
It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch. I must hold his pain where it is. Mine does not matter. . . . The punishment I inflict, his fatigue, and that he is up against something that he does not comprehend is everything.
Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.