People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

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.

As a radiation researcher, I am at one with being perceived as crazy!

The only wealth you keep is the wealth that you give away.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.