Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.

A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.

In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

I love to strengthen myself with a healthy diet, plenty of exercise and maintaining a strong connection to myself.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?