You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Start where you are, use what you have.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreamscaptured my attentionso completely, that I didn't feel the bitter taste of coffee

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

Penitentiary songs have been a love of mine for years. They are so wonderful.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.