Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

Defiance through compliance.

It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

You beat Cancer by how you live.

Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.