Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which read more

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.