I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

An original is worth more than a copy.

Let go of yesterday, you made it! Don't use yesterday's state of mind to make today's decisions.

You should be aware that anywhere that a ground rod is installed, that there may be AC voltage/current/frequency in the vicinity of it.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

You learn something from the classics but your feelings and your imagination operate in the domain of the colloquial. We need to think seriously about reforming the Arabic that we use today.

In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.