War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

The important thing is to be drunk.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.