The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

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Never be afraid to wish for what you really want in life.Wishes are possible manifestation of thoughts.

...when the petals fallSay it is beautiful and good, say it is well

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we secure our own soul.

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.

The rosary in the hand, repentance on the lips, and the heart full of sinful longings-sin itself laughs at our repentance!