Don't just give me an advance. I want a percentage.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

Time and again, I've met or read about people who succeeded against all kinds of odds because they had passion. You're passion away to win!

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

I listen to the voices.