I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

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

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

When I give, I give myself.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Freedom and independence form my character.