False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Claude Pepper, (attributed)

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Maria Shriver

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Publilius Syrus

The healthy die first.

Italian Proverb

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

Elias Williams

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Source Unknown

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

Ringo Starr

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Bob Keeshan

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Louisa May Alcott