"My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!"

"If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving."

"I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me."

"A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords."

"A resilient spirit knows that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that character is forged in the fires of discipline."