Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds.

Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

Everything that is seen and everything that is unseen is God.