The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

Alan Shepard

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Thomas H. Raddal

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Michelle Geaney

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Pierre Corneille

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare

The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'

Billy Gardell

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

Janet Jackson