A Champion is all they can be in every facet of their lives. They prioritize what they need to get done. But for me it's someone who works every single day on being a better person.

Competing, to me is just a mentality that says you never back down.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

Unlimited possibilities: Hope

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.