One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.