After you have the basics down it's all mental.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

Optimism, " said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

Your answers lie here, " Rovender said, gesturing around the library.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

The great love of my life is music.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.