To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

You wear your attitude. It is highly visible to every person you meet and shows up in the way act, live, and love.

Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.

Putting isn't golf, greens should be treated almost the same as water hazards: you land on them, then add two strokes to your score.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.