We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, The Orator

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

James Russell Lowell

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . . and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Bruce Jenner, In Can't Stop the

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Ian Somerhalder

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Richard M. Nixon

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Isabelle Adjani

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Manny Pacquiao

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Wentworth Miller

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

Joe E. Lewis

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Lewis Mumford

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce, Ulysses (p. 273 Ch