We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Alice Sebold

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

Archie Shepp

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

Cat Cora

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Peter Brimelow

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

James Russell Lowell

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Sanjay Kumar

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Trey Anastasio

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

Spencer Bachus

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Daniel Day-Lewis

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Mark Burnett