Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

Leo Tolstoy

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann von Goethe

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Kevin Richardson

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

Alex Ferguson

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Paula Radcliffe

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Lord Mansfield

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

Gina Carano

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Gwyneth Paltrow