There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

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.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.