What most people don't know is all the good things that the coach did without anybody knowing. For instance, he would grab up a couple of us players and go to the burn unit at Children's Hospital. He was always doing things like that and didn't want any publicity about it.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Jodi Picoult

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

Jean Piaget

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.

David Millar

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

Clyde Tombaugh

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Among the mouldering bones there was the head of a flaxen haired girl. One side of her face was well preserved, almost mummified. She must have been a beauty. But the other side of her face was all bone and a horrifying sight, not the sort of thing one likes to think about after.

Christopher Vokes

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

Jean Cocteau

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, quoted

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Ian Mcewan

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often.

Steve Maraboli