To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For H

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Albert Einstein

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Yogi Berra

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

Oscar Wilde

The basic fear with love is that love is larger than ourselves.

Swami Dhyan Giten

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Austin O'Malley

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Antonin Artaud

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Arthur Koestler

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke