The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died!

Most of my horror inspiration is really older stuff and really new stuff.

One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.

There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look…and apparently, where NOT to look.

When you know your WHY, you'll know your WAY.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.