Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less.

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.

If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth.

If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th.

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

The designer must think first and work later.