Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand! – Oscar Pistorius
I have run two Olympic A standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics. – Oscar Pistorius
I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London. – Oscar Pistorius
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I dont want to look back and say I ran a terrible race. – Oscar Pistorius
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderers life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered persons family. – Dennis Prager
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge