“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes

Young man, make your name worth something.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owing real estate.

I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

tall oaks from little acorns grow.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced

That best portion of a good man’s life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.

What I love about tennis is that I’m better now than I was when I was 20.

I just gotta not suck; which is hard, considering exactly who I am.

In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.

Better times are coming.

I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.

There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.