The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine, My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.

Anne Steele

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

Trevor Phillips

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James Barrie

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis L'Amour

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

George Bernard Shaw

There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Jennifer Ellison

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

William H. McRaven