If we let our head drop, our heart drops with it. Keep your head up, and your body is capable of amazing feats.

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

Hard work and an open mind - it's the only way to realize the potential that is inside every one of us.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.

Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.

Never, ever give up. And smile

Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

I am brave, though I am alone.

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.