Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

Proverb

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

Kathleen Kennedy

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

George Sand

It is exactly our sense of haste and impatience that impedes us from seeing the true beauty life has to offer.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

Natalie Coughlin

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst, Love, Guilt & the

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

Graham Brown

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Jon Meacham

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Pat Riley

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises