Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. -- The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

Daniel Libeskind

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

Tryon Edwards

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Viggo Mortensen

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant

All Stories are True.

John Edgar Wideman

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

John Sununu

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Jackie Joyner Kersee

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Heidi Murkoff

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

Robert A. Heinlein