“In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.”

“In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.”

“I was nervous and confident at the same time nervous about going out there in front of all of those people with so much at stake and confident that I was going to go out there and win.”

“If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.”

“No matter what accomplishments you make somebody helped you.”

“If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's suppose...”

“My ship the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say was because of the events you will read about in this account. This is a long letter, I know, but I had quite a long time...”

“An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud researcher would be considered suicidal by many people.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”