If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

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.

Come on, "he meowed to Greystripe."Let's go home.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

Anytime a woman competes with another woman she demeans herself.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.