If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

What I would like, I think, is to live a while longer. But not again.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.