Never complain and never explain.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

We boil at different degrees.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Only you can control your future.

Hope is a waking dream.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.