Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

Mike Piazza

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

Scott Hamilton

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

My grandpa notes the world's worn cogsAnd says we're going to the dogs.His grandpa in his house of logsSaid things were going to the dogs.His grandpa in the Flemish bogsSaid things were going to the dogs.His grandpa in his hairy togsSaid things were going to the dogs.But this is what I wish to state.The dogs have had an awful wait.

Anon., The Hymn of the Pessimist

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried

Yogi Berra

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

Rachel Carson

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.

Albert Einstein, What Life Means

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Albert Camus

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Thomas Carlyle