"When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

"It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself."

"You are the most influential person you will talk to all day."

"Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try."

"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed."