It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

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.

For a person of wrong mental attitude the whole world is wrong and for a person of right mental attitude the same world is a beautiful world.

A day is a miniature eternity.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

There is only one large circle that we march in around and around each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

The era of big government is over.