I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you will grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.