To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

If you do not prepare yourself physically to succeed, you must prepare yourself mentally for the humiliation of failure.

Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.

There is no nobler deed than the performance of one's duty.

A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

Present fear is never as bad as later regret.

In the absence of fear, there can be no courage.

Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise.

He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I personally love Jennifer Lawrence. She's an amazing actress, but so young and fresh and youthful.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.

So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".