If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

Bad Leadership: When you want to lead people more than to love them.

I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.