I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

It’s complicated, ” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender.“Talk slowly, ” Jenna retorted derisively.“Okay, I deserved that, ” I admitted.

I'm just a girl, with a pen and a dream

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.