Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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

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

All I have are the people.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

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.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

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

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

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

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

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

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success as symbolized by the championship requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.

Respect your fellow human being treat them fairly disagree with them honestly enjoy their friendship explore your thoughts about one another candidly work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

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.

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

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.

I am special.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Now I have a very good life and I am very proud of my work.

Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.

Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that.

I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.

It's better if a singer disconnects from the original and brings something new to the version.

Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.