Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Love.. Can me mean things..

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation