It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.

Josh Billings

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody -- somewhere -- was practicing more than me.

Larry Bird

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

Cindy Morgan

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

Robert H. Schuller

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Ulrich Beck

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Francois Truffaut

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Carlos Santana