"I went from being completely confident to completely discouraged ... to simply doing it."

"I went from being completely confident to completely discouraged ... to simply doing it."
Kelly Perkins
Heart transplant recipient, after climbing the 14,686-foot Matterhorn in Switzerland.
"Murderers will not determine the future of Iraq."
President Bush
In response to the recent terrorist bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad and other attacks on American troops.
"Mistrust between the two sides cannot be dispelled within a single negotiation. It takes time."
Li Dunqiu
Secretary-general of the Chinese Society for the Study of Korean History, commenting on the United States, North Korea and four other nations meeting to resolve a nuclear dispute.