“To be somebody and not just a great black poet ”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your ...”

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

“People who take risks are the people you'll lose against”

“I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.”

“Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the des...”

“Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great ...”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to ans...”

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to...”

“Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.”