When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening any more.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

For me, Mama's cabinet had been full of mysteries and secrets to be puzzled out, like an adventure. For them it had been full of memories. And I had broken all of them.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

Defence is our best attack.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.