If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity.

When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what 'We Are' means, come to THON.

Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience.

Skill is the bridge between success and great success.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

It’s really over, isn’t it?” He laughed and pulled me into his lap. “That’s the beauty of it all. Nothing’s over. It’s just a new start.

President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.