Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Frankly, the only good people who I know are dogs.

What I truly believe, I will achieve.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.