Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.