I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

To dream in doctrines, how tidy!

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.