Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

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.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.