(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

The only one who can beat me is me.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Don't shoot for something unattainable - completely outside of your nature or opportunity.

For every success, there is a system

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.