I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

Although goals are important, having a plan of action is vital to the success of those goals. Having a goal with no plan of action is like wanting to travel to a new destination without having a map.

Steve Maraboli

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Samuel Johnson

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

Mo Rocca

Past failures are guideposts to success.

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This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

Richard M. Helms

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.

Dave Chappelle

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Margaret Oliphant

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.Macaulay's minute on education arguing for the use of English in India

Thomas Babington Macaulay

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Annie Dillard

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton