He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

Yeah, it seems like it, right? It definitely was one of the best matches that I've played.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.