I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it.

Jerome K Jerome

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jonathan Safran Foer

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Mary Roach

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Arnold Bennett

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Karl Von Clausewitz

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

Randall Terry

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

Xaviera Hollander

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Robert. L. Ehrlich

He was so busy socializing, making sure people approved and liked him, he didn't notice his precious ticks of time slipping away. He was so popular. But now...I was famous.

Coco J. Ginger

Something is always happening somewhere.

Mitch Albom

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Mortimer Adler