I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Tom Harkin

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

Anthony Foxx

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Steve Jobs

Microsoft didn't kill Linux on the Desktop... Apple did.

CmdrTaco

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Blaise Pascal

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.

Sherri Shepherd

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

Johnny Weir

The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like clouds, and she would ring them out like the rain.

Markus Zusak

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

Bill Squires

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi