I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

Fabric is the most extraordinary thing; it has life. You must respect the fabric.

I'd love to wear the big pant, like I see on the street, or the blouson, but I'd look ridiculous. I'm not that shape. You must respect yourself.

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.