"I love my fans more than life itself"

“I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.”

“It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.”

Source : Claude McKay (1973). “The passion of Claude McKay: selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948”, Schocken

“There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1924). “Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect”, p.91, Univ of Massachusetts Press

“We all die. It's just a question of when.”

“You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?”

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”

“All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.”

“We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.”