A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember.

The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.