I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.

Whatever you want to do, go do it.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.