Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

I belong wherever I want to be.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.