A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

No one can turn back the clock. Lie about your age if you want, but we're all going in the same direction.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Power is as power does.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.