Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence instead is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

I came out of a family background that involved itself with people.

Why are you all here?" "One of Bantazar's assassins hit you with an exomangler," Lore said. "He's dead." "A lot dead." Wraith snorted and high-fived Lore. "Massive deadness.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.