Failure is a word I don't accept.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

Changed people change nations.

It is so beautiful to see a relationship that is nourished and fueled by a love expressed with action.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

My job is to make people happy. And the people that I make happy, make me happy.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Laws are not made for the good.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'