I have always drawn strength from being close to home.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Start where you are, use what you have.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

The theory of meaning says that joining and serving in things larger than you that you believe in while using your highest strengths is a recipe for meaning.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

An idea is a feat of association.

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.