You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

Love changes things

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distance—offering us a new vantage point over our lives.

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man.

My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.