The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today

Olin Miller

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Tupac Shakur

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.

Nicole Appleton

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Napoleon Bonaparte

But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, is the supreme good of life. I think it a duty, and it is my earnest wish, to take no further part in public affairs. The abuse of confidence by publishing my letters has cost me more than all other pains.

Thomas Jefferson

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

Michael W. Smith

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Joseph Parkinson