It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.

Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.