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“Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.”
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“I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.”
Source : Song: Surrendering, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002
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“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
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“A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.”
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“No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.”
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“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”
Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012. 
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“We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.”
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“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”
Source : "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.
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“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”
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“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”
