I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together but I think when the prosperous nations and in particular the U.S. realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives there will be a mass change in value.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

As I've gotten older I've gotten more liberal and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents I practically fell out of my chair.

If we tried to write about politics you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians vote for me vote for the Liberal Party and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

The more that I know of politics the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Poetry's always dead you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion but in fact what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

You know people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.