I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.

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.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, 'Everything stinks.' Then, you're never wrong.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.

You can't measure love, it has no start it has no end

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.