To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

When I give, I give myself.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

United we stand; divided we fall.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

They alone live, who live for others.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.