I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.

At each step there is a small moment of transformation that cannot be overlooked or rushed. And these moments should not be, because they are beautiful.

Life is great, and without it, you'd be dead.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

The surest way to get a VC interested is to say that you're not interested in taking VC money.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

I'm the same boy I used to be.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.