It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

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.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

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.

Our children will one day lead the world, but it is our responsibility to show them that this world can be a beautiful one.

The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Water is free of charge. Why then do people drink Evian?

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you.