You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!
I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious.
The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.
God loves you as though you are the only person in the world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.
A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.