I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Oswald Chambers

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Paulo Coelho

I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.

Jane Austen

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

Sylvia Earle

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Anna Nicole Smith

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

Walter Mosley

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

C.S. Lewis

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

G.K. Chesterton

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

John Podhoretz