When someone tells you the truth about something, they become loveable.

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.'

My own momma turned her back on me, and that's my momma.

When I am performing, I try to follow the advice I give to my students. This can be very hard - I was never a good student and I find I'm no better when I am the teacher.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.