You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job .

Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.

Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

Ooo, he’s snotty. I like him already. (Tee)