Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Catherine Deneuve

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Leroy Burrell

Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

Fritjof Capra

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

John Wooden

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Cesare Pavese

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Jack Nicklaus

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

Jack Kingston

Stress is like a pulse, if you have it you’re alive.

Steve Maraboli

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will