Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test.
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.
Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
When you meet someone so different from yourself, in a good way, you don't even have to kiss to have fireworks go off. It's like fireworks in your heart all the time. I always wondered, do opposites really attract? Now I know for sure they do. I'd grown up going to the library as often as most people go to the grocery store. Jackson didn't need to read about exciting people or places. He went out and found them, or created excitement himself if there wasn't any to be found. The things I like are pretty simple. Burning CDs around themes, like Songs to Get You Groove On and Tunes to Fix a Broken Heart; watching movies; baking cookies; and swimming. It's like I was a salad with a light vinaigrette, and Jackson was a platter of seafood Cajun pasta. Alone, we were good. Together, we were fantastic.