We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

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.

Be thankful for every mountain, because it's the mountain top that will give you best view of the world.

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

God cares a lot more about who we are and who we are becoming than about who we once were.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

A little bit is not that much to ask to make things right.

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.