A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

See life as an adventure. There is no security in being feeble. Be brave, be exciting. Be creative. Live’.

Allie sighed. It was an old yellow sound, like turning pages.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.