The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

You sacrificed for us - you're the real MVP.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Aren't we constantly discovering how mistaken some of our cherished beliefs were? That is what progress is. We learn continually to cast aside outgrown notions and adopt wiser and better ones.

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

The lightt of love flows out of our soul, but often it is blocked by our fear to show it.

When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal.