I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

An awesome thing children need is a frank smile from a sincere heart

Just the sensation of having one man touching her and the other watching made her shiver in awareness.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

This is what I learned at the hospital. You have to do everything you can, you have to work your hardest, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!