The known universe always feels easier even when it's miserable.

You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.

I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.