I think sometimes your worst enemy is inside your head. All your insecurities, your ego, your fears, your expectations.

I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.

I try to learn the most I can from every mistake.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.