The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Marcellinus Ammianus

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Armstrong Williams

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Budd Schulberg

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Beth Kephart

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

Newton Gatambia

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Ivan Turgenev

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Andre Breton

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Terry Pratchett

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.

Kurt Tucholsky

By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

C.S. Lewis