Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

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.

If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word. For it is from a single word that books are made.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

I don't listen to my own stuff unless I've been drinking a lot.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

Everyone said to me growing up, "You're like an American. You have to go to America. That's your spiritual home."

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice