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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Playing safe is only playing.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Fail your way to the top.

The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.