Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Kahlil Gibran

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Eleonora Duse

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

Birdy

Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning and its end. The Holy See insistently proclaims that the first and most fundamental of all human rights is the right to life, and that when this right is denied all other rights are threatened. The assumption that abortion and euthanasia are human rights deserving legislative sanction is seen by the Holy See as a contradiction which amounts to a denial of the human dignity and freedom which the law is supposed to protect. A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2000/index.htm

Pope John Paul II, May 25, 2000

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Theodore Roosevelt

When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are.

Chelsie Shakespeare

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth

I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.

Joan Jett

Don't you realize it's the that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what done...it's about what been done us.

Tricia Goyer

...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...

John Geddes

I came to the place of my birth and cried, The friends of my youth, where are they? And echo answered, Where are they?

Arabic Proverb