"I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously."

“I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.”

“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”

“I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.”

Source : "Glenn Beck Appeals to 'Restore' the U.S., Al Sharpton Commemorates Martin Luther King" by Huma Khan, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.

“Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.”

Source : "Fed up: Anger rising across America" by K.T. McFarland, www.foxnews.com. July 7, 2014.

“The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.”

“We live in a very self-absorbed age. I guess it's naturally human to think about my own problems as somehow greater than someone else's. I think when any one of us begins to think that way, it might be well to look beyond ourselves. Who am I to say that I am more handicapped, or suffering more, than someone else?”

“I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.”