The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lennon

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.

Iba Ezra

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Samuel Johnson

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Bernhard Schlink

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Jean Paul Gaultier

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell