Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands.
We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.