Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

I'd trade every last one of you for a moment's peace and a dog that didn't P on the carpet

...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.

He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.

The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

I've been so in my moment about my life.