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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.

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

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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.