The difference between champions and everyone else is that champions are never afraid of losing, while everyone else is afraid of winning.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

Love builds a bridge. Hate builds a wall.

Maybe he's not coming, ' I whispered to Damar. 'He's crazy after all. Maybe something shiny caught his attention and he forgot about me.

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves