Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

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.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.

Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.