I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

My next baby will be my new record.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I still think I am the greatest.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

My three children have brought me great joy.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Going home helps the content.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.