“There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. For your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.”

“Once you wrap your brain around playing your age, it's a very, very positive thing…”

“Every part of all this soil is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hollowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. The very dust you now stand on responds more willingly to their footsteps than to yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch.”

“I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.”

“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”

“If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.”

“If you fail in your leadership, then blame yourself. God has nothing to do with you leading other souls under your own feet.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”