There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

If you find yourself unwilling to share, you are cheating yourself.

God will be there for you when no one else is. He will walk with you on every mountain. He will carry you through every valley. He will never leave you or forsake you. You don't need me

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.