I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

The world is an enormous injustice.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.