When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.

A woman in love is her most lovely. A relationship end does not change that unless she lets it.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

And if she fell, he'd fall with her.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

I Will Consult with God and Know that I will be Guided to Do What is Needed.