I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

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.

That really was NOT fun, though. Well, the hitting-her-with-a-stick part, that was fun. But crashing into a concrete bear? NOT fun.

You are in love when you feel and see. Mind is dancing on a flower like a bee.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.

The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than "The Meta­morphosis".

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.