People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ralph Ransom

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

Mark Rydell

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Dave Brubeck

A child miseducated is a child lost.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

The Talmud

I will tell each person what I have told others in the past

John C. Metzler, Comment prior t

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Julius Erving

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Oswald Chambers

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

Matt Damon

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert