Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.