Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

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.

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.

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.

At this rate, I'm still going to be aspiring by the time I'm expiring.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Each new day provides a new opportunity to allow everyone and everything to be exactly as they are. Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what is) leads the way to contentment ...

Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.