“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and...”

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

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

“My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.”

“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.”

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

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“Maybe if we stopped trying to achieve movie standards of greatness, we'd be happy with what we have.”

“Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.”

“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so...”

“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”

“Musics the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. Theres always music. If Im not playing it, Im listening to it. With my writingsometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highl...”