Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me, " he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.