Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

All thinking men are atheists.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

They alone live, who live for others.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.