What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.

Ain't nuttin' to it,but ta do it!

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.

Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.

It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.