There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

Alex Flinn

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jose Marti

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Johann von Goethe

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Studs Terkel

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary

Ernest Hemingway

Action is the universal language of success.

Steve Maraboli

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Joey Ramone

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Robert De Niro

I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

To me faith means not worrying.

John Dewey

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

Dylan McDermott