Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.