I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.

Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.

I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

Good health is true wealth.

Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

Positive thinking breeds success.

Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.

Living the dream is simply a form of living your passion.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.