We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

Julius Erving

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Roy D. Chapin Jr.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Charles M. Schwab

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Walter Pater

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Elijah Wood

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

E. J. Klemme

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.

Joseph Collins

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Aldous Huxley

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Sir William Temple

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Paulo Coelho

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn S. Yalow