If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

Got your mind set on a dream, you can get it though how hard it may seem.

Good thinking brings good feeling and good feeling brings good thinking.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Only the young die good.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She's like the magic 46. She's 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she's 46% in a lot of these swing states.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.