The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.