The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.