I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.

If I can take it, I can make it.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.

God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.

you have to love something before you can hate it.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.