It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.