Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Ryan Lochte

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is to me the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

Prem Rawat

Too many people want to have written.

Terry Pratchett

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Stephen Jay Gould

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Lennart Meri

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Rihanna

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.

Orson Scott Card