When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

We can't be brave without fear.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color skin.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

The critics only made me work harder.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.„

Captain Reed eyed him thoughtfully. "I built my whole life around the stories they about me. You know what I learned?"Archer shook his head."What you do makes you who you are....

Finish Well

Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.