No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.

Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great.

If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?

Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

Dream big, because dreams do happen.

Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice.

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.

The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.

It is terrible to be an unprotected being.

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

The most important things cannot be spoken; that’s why there’s music.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.