Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Bruce Hornsby

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Henry David Thoreau

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Joseph Brodsky

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Martina Navratilova

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Seann William Scott

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Dean Inge

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

George Santayana

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Jane Austen

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

Thomas Huxley

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

Al Bernstein