Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself.

Every passion has its destiny.

You can get defeated, just as long as you don't fail.

If you’ve given your all, and it's still not working, it's likely time to move on.

The lips know only shallow tunes

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Love when it comes, its easy. But when it leaves, its like dying.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.