I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

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.

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.

Pretty's just a pretty word.

What is love if not the gravity of souls?

Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

Some of the federal programs to help homeowners were never fully implemented.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.