He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

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.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.