"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero."

“When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.”

“Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.”

“I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.”

“Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.”

“Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.”

“Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.27, Duke University Press

“If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.”

“I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.148