Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

I've made some mistakes before.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."