Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Democrats must rally behind a low-rate, broad-based tax system that is fair, simple and efficient.

If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've been, for one thing.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Communism is like one big phone company.

There is no end to one’s faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.