I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

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.

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people.

The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.

The place you look at for the salvation must be the science, not the skies!

Waiting is one of the great arts.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.