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.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Details create the big picture.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.