"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

"The honorary duty of a human being is to love."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

"And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

"God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; He is."

"When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich."

"I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me."

"I'm not the greatest, I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round."

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."

"They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."