Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

John Wooden

• Learning cannot be inherited but the desire to learn can.

• Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

• Not what we gain, but what we give measures the worth of life we live.

• If your're standing still you're going backwards.

• Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.

• The worst words you ever write are better than the best words you never write.

• Make your passion your profession.

• Advice to students - Diligence is more important than intelligence.

• Crises bring out the best in the best of us..... and the worst in the worst of us.

• The charm of all power is modesty.

• The purpose of obstacles is to instruct, not obstruct.

• A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

• When we see problems as opportunities for growth, we tap a source of knowledge within ourselves which carries us through.

• Change your thoughts and you change your world.

• Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.

• In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is the kind and gentle spirit.

• The noblest of all dogs is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

• It's pretty difficult to keep your mind and your mouth open at the same time.

• Admit you're wrong when you're wrong and you'll be right.

• If all else fails, try following directions.

• To rise to the top, you must first get to the bottom of things.

• There is a difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

• Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others cause happiness whenever they go.

• Difficulty is an excuse history never accepts.

• Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

• If things keep getting better all the time, how come so many people remember the "good old days".

• A winner says "It may be difficult, but it's possible"; a loser says "It may be possible, but it's difficult".

• Many people are like a wheelbarrow - they go no further than they are pushed.

• Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions.

• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

• The University's main product is minds; it's only real profits are ideas.

• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

• Don't fight forces; use them.

• A polite person is one who listens with interest to those things he knows all about when they are told to him by a person who knows nothing about them.

• A man always has two reasons for the things he does - a good one and the real one.

• The difficult we do immediately....the impossible we sub-contract.

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

• If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.

• To make headway improve your head.

• A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

• Man was born with two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with..... Success or failure depends upon which he uses most.

• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

• There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all the crew.

• Having money often inclines people to the belief that they have something to say, and on any subject.

• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

• An idealist is one who, upon observing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup.

• Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

• You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

• Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

• When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

• Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

• To be good, a man must do something every day to help himself.

• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

• If you don't say it, you don't have to unsay it.

• An expert is somebody who's afraid to learn anything new, 'cause then he wouldn't be an expert any more.

• A word to the wise isn't necessary.... it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

• Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

• In the support and practice of correct principles, we can never reach wrong results.

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

• My wife is the only person I know who uses a smoke detector for a timer in the kitchen.

• Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.

• You have to grow old, but you can remain immature forever.