I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY

DAVID RAT

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

Chinese Proverb

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.(Gore Vidal writing about the critic Edmund Wilson)

Gore Vidal, New York Review of B

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

Junior Seau

However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

John Lancaster Spalding

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

George Orwell

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Louisa May Alcott

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Charles Gordon

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Albert Brooks