Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

That you can be whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, regardless of your gender.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

After I fell in love with you, I fell in love with my life.