My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

If it's too easy it's probably not love.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.