What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture.
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.
I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.
To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
