As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Joseph Cannon

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Jim Jarmusch

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Peter Shaffer

If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

he was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

John Green

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. On Washington D. C.

Frank Dane

Death is coming but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.?

Jarod Kintz

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt

Benjamin Franklin