But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace.

Marcus Aurelius

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Peter Drucker

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Michael Chabon

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Amy Tan

Buy the truth, and do not sell it

Bible

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Mary Webb

It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle!

Robert M. Price

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.

Stephen Richards

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Vivienne Westwood

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil

I feel like I'm in a bad dream and I can't wake up

Sherri Lee Emmons