The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.

I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.

I want my mommy, Mr. Squidward!

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.

There really isn't a day when I wake up and DON'T have to be someplace.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.