You dont get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

I still have a dream.

When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.

I like to try to hit all of my dives.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

We are gods in the chrysalis.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

To be reborn, you have to die first.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

One can hardly help another to the top of the hill without climbing there himself.