If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

To someone you may be their only sunlight

We did not underestimate what we could do.

Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

I do not fear it: I have been there.