The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

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.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.

The fastidious entrepreneur is a connoisseur as well as a poet.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.

I dont know if youre familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and youre soaking wet within 10 minutes.

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.