In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Tom Landry

I quote others only in order to better express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Tacitus

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Dhani Harrison

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

Keith Thibodeaux

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer