When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

Louisa May Alcott

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Ken Blanchard

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

William Shakespeare

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

Jonny Wilkinson

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Shakti Gawain

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Hannah Arendt

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.

Sir Winston Churchill

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

George Gurdjieff

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Gianni Versace