"Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it."

“I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.”

Source : "Human to Hero: Tyson Gay primed for Olympic challenge", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2012.

“The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.”

Source : Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

“Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.”

“New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.”

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

“He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.”

“If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.”

“Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”

“For many people, life seems to be a kind of brief candle hardly worth living. But for those who are bold, who are venturesome, who have the humility to deal with what is possible rather than what is predictable, life is an exciting and challenging adventure. Life is no brief candle to me. In a world that can work for everyone, especially in which I can make a difference-that is a life worth living!  That is living!  That is being alive!”