I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

Michael Bergin

True sacrifice is merely self-control.

David W. Stevens

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

Cam Neely

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry S. Commager

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Diogenes

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

E. J. Klemme

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

Barbra Streisand

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

William Barclay

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Sir John Robert Seeley

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

Gordon Strachan