I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Be as you wish to seem.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Love is a state of being.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.