I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Small wins and major victories are important because they encourage and inspire you to keep your faith and stay the course even when everything around you seems to be falling apart.

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I knew what I wanted to do even when I was a little girl.