“I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.”

“To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.”

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

“Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is.”

“Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization…”

“The objective is to win: fairly, squarely, decently, win by the rules, but still win.”

“Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”

“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”

“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”

“Getting to the final is everything, and winning is icing on the cake.”

“A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose.”

“When you’ve got the momentum in a football game, that is a time to keep going and get it into the end zone. We want to score for America’s families.”

“Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things – blocking and tackling.”

“Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence, and a customer will recognize both.”

“We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have see our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.”

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”

“A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.”

“All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.”

“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

“I’m not afraid to die – it’s just that I had so much left to do in this world.”

“A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.”

“I’ve been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I’m not without compassion.”

“Love truth, but pardon error.”

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”

“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

“It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.”

“Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”

“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.”

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.” –

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”