A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Salvador Dali

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

Justin Townes Earle

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

John H. Groberg

New roads; new ruts.

G. K. Chesterton

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.

Benny Green

Women known The way to rear up children (to be just)They know a simple, merry, tender knackOf tying sashes, fitting baby-shoesAnd stringing pretty words that make no sense.And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Auro

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Mary Wortley Montagu

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Lyman Abbott

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Naguib Mahfouz