Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.

I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

Traveling anywhere in the world involves some risk. You could always opt to spend your life cowering under your bed.

I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.

If you want to celebrate a happy occasion Do it by helping those who are in need.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

Holly Holm is a heck of an athlete and a heck of a fighter.

A broken bone can heal but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.

Beat swords into ploughshares

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.