The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.