Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Gerald Brenan

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

Anita Hill

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Marcus Aurelius

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen

Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.

C.S. Lewis

My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter. Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice. I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me. I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks. Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.

Charles Dickens

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Wayne Gretzky

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

John Bradshaw

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Henry David Thoreau

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Aneurin Bevan