I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

Beauty can help fill the cracks in people’s hearts and comfort their souls.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.