It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.

I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.

The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.