Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Christopher Meloni

One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Xun Zi

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.

Ryne Sandberg

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . . and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Bruce Jenner, In Can't Stop the

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Mehmet Oz

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kinky Friedman

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

Malcolm Wilson

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron