I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

That which we love will be all to destroy us.

Jake Wilson

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Lewis Mumford

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Proverb

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Andy Rooney

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Robert Caro

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.

Ellen Pompeo

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley

O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Plato