Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

I like being unconventional.

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Once we do fill the void and experience the expansion in consciousness, we realize there is enough and has always been enough. We've always had exactly what we've needed in every moment.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.