Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

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.

The pain is necessary to find the power of being.

Self-pity is the worst disability a person can have, Callie. It's crippling.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.