There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

Let your name be worth more than your bank account

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

Don't work for something in Exchange, Work on something for a Change.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

For the last year, I had to get out of my bubble.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.