My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Peggy Fleming

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

George Bernard Shaw

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Carson McCullers

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes.

Mikhail Bakunin

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

Emma Bunton

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Ansel Adams

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

Albert Camus

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Jennifer Granholm

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Robertson Davies

A will finds a way.

Orison Swett Marden