“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”

“I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.”

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.”

“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”