That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up you fight to the finish.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Shortcuts makes life short!

Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.

Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

Money is a needful and precious thing

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.