I plot my ascent daily.

Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

If you have a clear picture in your head of something that's going to happen... then nothing can stop it.

Look out for those who look out for you. Loyalty is everything.

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

In reference to Cat Stevens, it is very, very important we have accurate information on our terrorist watch list and our no fly list and that you have a remedy.

I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.