My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

Remember, all things are possible to those who believe!

Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

Outcome is not vital! All what matters is your effort and devotion towards it...!!

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

People's Fury is above all the furies.

History is the memory of States.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.