Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.

Never, ever give up. And smile

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.