I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

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.

Becoming fast friends when you're that small is easy, because the only requirement is that the other person likes to play games.

One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be.

Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

The universe is still a place of mystery and wonder.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.