Conduct yourself in this world as if you are here to stay forever, and yet prepare for eternity as if you are to die tomorrow.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

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

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.

When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.