Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

If the table moves, move with it.

Sakaue

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.

W.P. Kinsella, James Earl Jones

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Orson Scott Card

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Andrew Murray

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

Matt LeBlanc

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of me. It's evening, and the light is fading, and night is pressing in. It's always the same. In the dream I always go back to being seven years old. Software like that you can't exchange once it's contaminated.

Haruki Murakami

Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

George Orwell

The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall.

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A good soldier is a poor scout.

American Indian Proverb, Cheyenn