I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

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.

The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.

Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.