There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Andrew Sullivan

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Oscar Wilde

There is a weird power in a spoken word. . . . And a word carries far--very far--deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim 1900, Ch

Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange. After all, vitamins are supposed to keep people healthy. Also, they're inanimate objects. But thanks to them I was stuck in the Jackson Center Mall watching my father run around in a bee costume.

Elizabeth Scott

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Jerry Falwell

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Joel Edgerton

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Anton Chekhov

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground

Oscar Wilde

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Jane Fonda

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Sue Monk Kidd

The crucial question which confronts us in psychology and other aspects of the science of man is precisely this chasm between what is abstractly true and what is existentially real for the given living person.

Rollo May

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic