"I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster." — Bonnie St. John, American Paralympic skier, born 1964
"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times." — Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer, born 1942
"Young man—Young man—Your arm's too short to box with God." — James Weldon Johnson, American writer, born 1871
"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience." — James Weldon Johnson, American writer, born 1871
"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." — Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, born 1908
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Can't Swim." — Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the USA, born 1908
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." — Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the USA, born 1908
"Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete." — Steven Johnson, American popular science author, born 1968
"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." — James Earl Jones, American actor, born 1931
"I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain’t that the truth." — Quincy Jones, American record producer, born 1933
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." — Erica Jong, American author, born 1942