I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.

If you're having fun doing what you're doing, you're gonna really want to work hard at it.

You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got.

It's my first Olympics, I'm very young. It's incredible.

Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart.

Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.

In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.