I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

Bonnie Blair

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Buddinton Kelland

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Jean Paul

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

Criss Jami

What other hope does life hold outBut the miraculous, the skilled and patientExecution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?

Weldon Kees

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Norodom Sihamoni

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Julien Green

no glove, no love

Lauren Oliver

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

George Orwell

Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

Jerry Saltz