"I'm a Muslim. I believe in Allah and peace. I don't try to murder people. I don't believe in wars. I'm against war. I'm for peace."

"I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized …"

"I told him, 'I'm not going to fight you, you ugly bear.'"

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."