inspiration

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

"The man that decided to change on the 12th hours died at the 11th."

"Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens."

"Rogerson,"I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea,"he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Never run from the enemy, tackle them"

"If you want the answer—ask the question."

"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."

"You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been."

"I make music for ears, not eyes"

"The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today."

"The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God."

"Boredom is the fear of self."

"We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality."

"Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you."

"The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came."

"Although I have the colors, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."