No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

Rodger Ward

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Don Marquis

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Little

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.

Jennifer E. Smith

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped

Oscar Wilde

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

George Orwell

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Renee Repound

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

Jodi Picoult

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

Finley Peter Dunne