We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick axe.

American Indian Proverb, Navajo

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

Jimmy Connors

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

James Thurber

Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token of my cuteness. This story was often told (I expect that Yvonne and the Commander had been to an airport together perhaps three times in their lives) and always with a note of condescension. That was Americans for you: wanting to be friendly all right, but so loud, and inclined to flash the cash.

Christopher Hitchens

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Maurice Sendak

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Edith Hamilton

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Satyajit Ray

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

H.B. Bolton

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

Do what is right for the right reasons.

L.M. Fields