People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

However dark the night, however dim our hopes, the light will always follow darkness.