Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.