I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome!

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

John McEnroe

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

Carter G. Woodson

It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Frederick Douglass

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Albert Camus

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Fiona Apple

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

Ron Perlman

A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye.

Anon.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.

Thomas Jefferson