“Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!”

“The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.”

“Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.”

“...most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.”

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”