Never mind your happiness do your duty.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's easy.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

One of the things I have had to focus on, in order to move forward, is not being a stunt monkey.

I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.