If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

Sometimes, you don't have to win, you cannot win. but that has nothing to do with losing.

I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.

I believe intelligence and fear are very close together. Guys who say they are not afraid of anything, they are stupid. They are silly to me...I am afraid of everything

The journey has to be based on passion. Put yourself in something you love to do. If you love what you do you're able to dedicate yourself, overcome obstacles.

If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.

In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.

Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

If size mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.