"Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen."

“My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.”

“Today, however, those things which occupy us in the field of education are the interests of humanity at large and of civilization, and before such great forces we can recognize only one country-the entire world.”

“My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.”

“First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.”

Source : "Interview With Mexican President Vicente Fox". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.

“I’ve been to the Mountaintop”

“I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds, I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.”

“Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.142

“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.”