I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

Djuna Barnes

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself.

John O'Donohue

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

Timothy White

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Walter Lippmann

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Larry Hagman

The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God's Word.

Sorin Cerin

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Joni Mitchell

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

William Congreve