To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.

Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.

Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

You can rise above any situation and achieve your dreams.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

You don't have to get angry or bitter at the people who don't believe in your dream

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Time does not wait for you, you wait for the time

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy.