I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

Being in love changes a person…a modest touch changes one’s mind, a lone thought one’s reasoning, but a kiss my friend, well that changes one’s existences.

The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

Your body has enough weight for you to be in perfect condition just working against yourself.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.