I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

You shape your own destiny.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.