Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

You learn more from losing than winning.

Be stronger than your excuses.

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

Dream without fear love without limits.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.

Die with memories, not dreams.

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.

A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.