You've just gotta find your bliss and go after it.

If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.

Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.

Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.

It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

I just don't really want to settle and I don't think I should have to.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.