“If all the world’s a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.”

“Destiny, Talent, Calling, purpose. each of us came with our Talents, Purpose and Calling. What you do with them is the summary of your life here on earth.”

“You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.”

“Sometimes, you have to step into oblivion, in order to paint success.”

“The greatest reward for a man’s failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it.”

“Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.”

“Life may bring you to your knees; pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy! BE the solution!”

“My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don’t get what we wish for, we get what we work for.”

“If one felt successful, there’d be so little incentive to be successful.”

“Friendship is not by force but by choice.You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.”

“Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.”

“Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones.”

“It’s the place built out of Man’s ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man’s endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself— loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.”

“Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”