Wisdom is vindicated by all her children.
Invest your energy in the things you can control.
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man’s disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.
You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.