"One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm."

“I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.”

“Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!”

“Your soul is boundlessly impassioned and always prepared to impart to you whatever you need to thrive.”

Source : Rod Stryker (2011). “The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom”, p.132, Delacorte Press

“Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.”

Source : "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

“Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.”

“You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense the ironies in that statement. A blast in which five people are killed is a meaningful blast.”

“I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.”

Source : "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

“Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.”