Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.

The drop hollows the stone not by force but by often falling.Latin: Gulta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo

Ovid

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

David Thomas

Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.

American Indian Proverb, Lakota

In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want.

Bernard Baruch

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me: As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

Quentin Tarantino

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Billy Collins, "New York Times"

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Don't ever let your mistakes hold you back

Timothy Pina

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

Samuel Johnson