I don't care if I never see Texas again.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

There's always a source for humor.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.