"I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it."

"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals."

"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."

"It is more blessed to give than to receive."

"If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."

"True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation."

"Love of country is like love of woman—he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"We should acknowledge differences, we should greet differences, until difference makes no difference anymore."