What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

The universe stood still and the universe continued on its path, travelling through endless time.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I'm an Action Transvestite.

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

I don't regret anything that I ever did. You just look back at things and you either learn from them or get what you can from them but I wouldn't change what I did.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.