In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

George Orwell

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

Richard Dawkins

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Mark Haddon

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

G. K. Chesterton

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

Samuel Johnson

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

He who is present at a wrongdoing and does not lift a hand to prevent it, is as guilty as the wrongdoers.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope