The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

We don't deserve anything; we must work for everything.

I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Really feminism is about being all that you are and not having to trade one thing for another on your way up.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

You can't learn less.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.