Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

Bobby Orr

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Lawrence Durrell

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Voltaire

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Kate Millett

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top

Benjamin Franklin

We change, whether we like it or not

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Virginia Woolf

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

Gore Vidal

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

Brennan Manning, The Dick Staub