“My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that’s not easy.”

We can’t be brave without fear.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you’re going to be right.

God gave me this illness to remind me that I’m not Number One; He is.

To succeed, all I need to do is suffer.

I’m young; I’m handsome; I’m fast. I can’t possibly be beat.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

It’s hard to beat a guy when he’s got his mind made up that he’s going to win.

You’re not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you’ll find at the end will make it all worth it.

Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.

Forgiveness is easier to give to others than to yourself. But I am slowly learning.

He … knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.

It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.

I just feel like sometimes I’m a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It’s not easy being me.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.