It's always nice to start the season with a win.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Friendship first, competition second.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Endangered species are our friends.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

My music - that's the one area I won't let myself be pushed around. But in other parts of my life, I'm a confused mess.

Twenty-three cents may not sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account.

Everyone of you right now is valuable and essential.

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.