“God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.”

One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

You are what you think you are.

If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it’s not going to work out.

This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don’t know where I’m going. And I record everything.

I listen to all types of music so I’m influenced by everything.

You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.