Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

There is no treasure like the human heart.

Jocelyn Murray

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

Rudyard Kipling

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Oprah Winfrey

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Norman Cousins

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Lydia Maria Child

You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.

C. JoyBell C.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

George Bernard Shaw