Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

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God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

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Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

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I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?

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What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

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Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

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Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

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There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.

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