I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.