I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

Don't waste water even if you were at a running stream

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU ARE TOLD IF YOU WANT TO BE THE BEST THEN STAY OUT THE NIGHTCLUBS!

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?