No matter how hard you dance, not everyone will clap

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.

Be curious, confident and courageous.

Home means always here...

You are so much a part of me that it physically hurts when you are away--like I can't fully breathe until you are back again.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.