Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you’re talking about addressing the foundation of what’s going on with our people when we don’t have any financial power. Our basic needs aren’t being met in a lot of cases, so there’s no way we’re going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

From caring comes courage.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

To lead people walk behind them.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.