It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Rene Descartes

Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.

Sayagyi U Ba Khin

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Michel de Montaigne

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

George Eliot

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

Ernest Hemingway

We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.

Alberto Juantorena

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Yiddish Proverb

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

G. K. Chesterton