Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

I think things happen between people for a reason.

Being a father is just wonderful.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.