The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.