How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

Music empowers the soul with great strength.

No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

God has made all men to be happy.

As many as half of Ethiopias girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

I love being a fashion designer.

I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.