My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

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.

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

They danced by the light of the moon.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.