There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.
Disappoint anyone… hell, disappoint everyone – but don’t ever disappoint yourself.
Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.
Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.
Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.