The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

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.

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.

The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'