I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I can learn as much from Darius Vassell as he can from me - but he can learn more

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.