And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

Joel Robuchon

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

Scott Brooks

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

Malcolm Muggeridge, The Most of

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Henry Reed

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor Adorno

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle