Everything that you want Santa to be, he is.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

Kristin Chenoweth

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Tahereh Mafi

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

Diane Kruger

Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.

Gotye

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Ronald Knox

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Guillermo del Toro

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

Courteney Cox