It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.