The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn so

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Money has no country.

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

Conversations between parents and kids are important, about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.