Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Posing is a performing art.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.

When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Everyone loves something for nothing...even if it costs everything.