If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mystery's and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.