I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

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.'

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.

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 two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

We came out of nothing and we will go back to nothing.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

I've found that my humor goes over big in London.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.

Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts