I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.

You think you can avoid [pain, ] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.

Every bird of prey looks over its shoulder before it goes in for the kill, even a hawk. Even they know to watch their backs – every single one but an eagle. It’s fearless.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.