"Dogs never bite me - just humans."

“I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.”

Source : "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.

“Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.”

Source : Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

“Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind oÂ’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness oÂ’er thy witherÂ’d heart.”

“Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.”

“Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.”

“Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.”

“Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!”

“Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.”