Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

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.

Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.“We all fall down.

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

The gifts of grace increase as the sorrows increase.

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.