What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

I want the world to be better because I was here.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.