I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

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.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.