You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

We are all characters in a story we did not write.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

I don’t count the hours I practice, I make the hours count.