If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . . and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

John Derek

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Maynard James Keenan

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.

Rosie Perez

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Jean Paul

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

George Eliot

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Helen Hayes

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

In some countries a power exists which, though it is in a degree foreign to the social body, directs it, and forces it to pursue a certain track. In others the ruling force is divided, being partly within and partly without the ranks of the people. But nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States; there society governs itself for itself. All power centers in its bosom, and scarcely an individual is to be met with who would venture to conceive or, still less, to express the idea of seeking it elsewhere. The nation participates in the making of its laws by the choice of its legislators, and in the execution of them by the choice of the agents of the executive government; it may almost be said to govern itself, so feeble and so restricted is the share left to the administration, so little . do the authorities forget their popular origin and the power from which they emanate. The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

Mark Twain

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

Rico Rodriguez