I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

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.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

At what point do they believe what's been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are on the inside.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

My family vacations were softball tournaments.

A new broome sweepeth cleane.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.