I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.
It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.
Money is just an idea.
Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.
Every problem was once a solution to a previous problem.
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind. . . The way that Elvis freed your body, Dylan freed your mind, and showed us that because the music was physical did not mean it was anti-intellect. He had the vision and talent to make a pop song so that it contained the whole world. He invented a new way a pop singer could sound, broke through the limitations of what a recording could achieve, and he changed the face of rock'n'roll for ever and ever.
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.