The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

Jerry Rice

It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.

John Green

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Simone Weil

I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.

Sergei Bubka

... Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake the throne that, all along, had rightfully been hers.

John Green

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Bernard Mandeville

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Nicholson Baker

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Benjamin Spock

I don't care about age very much.

Chinua Achebe

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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