Behind a great success, there was a great failure

There was a beauty here, refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

John Updike

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Louisa May Alcott

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Ingmar Bergman

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker

is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Baltasar Gracian

It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

Steve Kerr

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Kate Smith

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Michael P. Anderson

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Richard Russo

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell