There is no real world, just the one you create.

You’ve got one life, one shot, and all the power to make it happen. Get ready to dream big and live big. It’s all up to you. And it starts now.

Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes.

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

My wife has dated broke black dudes.