Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward especially for kids.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players bands that play quiet unassuming music and TV shows that win awards. In that way I am an elitist snob.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead so it's always been something I look towards.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal that's exciting to me.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

I understand why society especially American society is gravitating toward fairy tales given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

Realizing our society as it is without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it and being humane toward that society that is all that we're sure of.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society but upward to the Great Society.

Racism is taught in our society it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.