"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates."

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."

"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."

"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."

"To dream is to realize that authenticity is the rarest and most beautiful asset."

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

"“Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”  “To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.”  “The dog did nothing in the nighttime.”  “That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes."