Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

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.

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

The only things stopping me today are: genetics, lack of will, income, brain chemistry and external events.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

I want to show America who I am and inspire young kids.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind