Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.

Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day a novel should not be interrupted.

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

Obedience is a part of greatness.

Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.