Mentally, I'm not ever going to go away.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

When you're good at something, make that everything

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General's Legacy)

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves." - Bob Proctor

Unnecessary Counter arguments. Can expose your ignorance and stupidity.

Never be afraid of failure. And don't stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.