Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.