I should still be in jail.

I only finished first grade.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.