A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

God chose to save you for a purpose

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.

We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.

May you always be each other's best friend, May your mutual love continue to be so May your successful marriage continue to thrive May love flourish, prosper, bloom and grow

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.