He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

Don’t try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can’t is that nobody could. It’s no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

Rap is still an art, and no-one's from the Old School Cuz rap is still a brand-new tool

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.