“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.”

“I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.”

“Everything changes when you wake up in the morning and decide to own today. It will not be taken from you by anyone else, it will be yours”

“Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.”

“Good morning, son
In twenty years from now
Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers
And I can tell you 'bout today
And how I picked you up and everything changed.”

“They will tell you, you can't sleep alone in strange place.
Then they'll tell you, you can't sleep with somebody else.
Ah, but sooner or later you sleep in your own space.
Either way, it's okay, you wake with yourself.”

“You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.”

“It’s because of you when I’m in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”

“I tell young people who ask me about their careers, "Wake up on Saturday and ask yourself, Which job would I go to right now? Then choose that one." Because what it tells you is that you're going to your passion; your passion is your work. And I feel that way about my work.”