A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Virginia Woolf

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

Mario Vazquez

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John W. Gardner

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

George Eliot

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Thomas Fuller

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

John Lennon

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Hugh Miller

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Johann von Goethe