I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself

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't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.

If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.