You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

There is no better coach than the bench.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it's happening more and more.

When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.