I come bearing an olive branch in one hand and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring perseverance in exercise adaptation of dress to the variations of climate simple and nutritious aliment and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties arrogance and intimidation employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks elderly Jews and other minorities.

In the past 40 years the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession my academic education is subnormal.

I went to a football school which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

We have not given science too big a place in our education but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

When I was a kid I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown Hiroshima has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had what a 10-year run?

I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.

The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.