Always think and be positive.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

Infuse heart, soul, spirit and passion because talent is not enough

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

If you want something you have to will it into experience

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

Don't be ashamed or embarrassed to dream big. You're living your life with hope, that's a powerful thing.

I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them.