It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Red Auerbach

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.

Sir Ronald Mason

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Leonardo da Vinci

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Bernard Shaw

This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or losing oneself in God is the age-old tragedy in which each must play his part.

Albert Camus

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

John Ruskin

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.

Robert Collier

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Franklin D. Roosevelt