The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

There is always room at the top.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Above all things, respect yourself.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.