My toughest opponent has always been me.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

To be awake is to be alive.

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

I sing a lot, even with my voice.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.