Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

American Indian Proverb

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.

Rory McIlroy

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.

Anon.

There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Ernest Hemingway

So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Engl

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Fay Wray

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Lynn White

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Philip K. Dick

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.

Jamie Redknapp

The great hope of society is in individual character.

William Ellery Channing