Champions are brilliant at the basics.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Don't let fear, or doubt creep in. Instead, let hope creep in. Start believing in yourself. Open your mind and heart to the possibilities.

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Find an enemy for life and you've no more need of a doctor.

We have lived with violence far too long.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.