Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.
Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness.
If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough.
People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.
It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids--I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.
A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.
Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.
I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand. . . Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me. . . What an unattractive person La Sand is. . . Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.