The man who has no problems is out of the game.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

People want to feel hopeful.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.