If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.

In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

Why do you do it, Amber? Why do you go after people like you do? It’s not who you are.”“That’s the point, ” Amber said. “I’m not allowed to be who I really am.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.