Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains and synapses are being rebuilt and rewired with maddening disregard for our personalities, so that each year, each month, each day, we transfer into a different person, an utterly unfaithful iteration of our original selves, of the drooling kid in the sandbox. But not me. I am still a facsimile of my early childhood. I am still looking for a loving dad to lift me up and brush the sand off my ass and to hear English, calm and hurtless, fall off his lips.

Gary Shteyngart

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Steven Wright

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

All the world loves a good loser.

Kin Hubbard

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Mitchell Kapor

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

Vaughan, Bill

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Kinky Friedman

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Richard Henry Stoddard