When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

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.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

There are Plebes in all classes.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.