The true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Henry Clay, Speech, 1832

I love to collect modern art.

Maria Sharapova

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Zack Wamp

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Rumi

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Virginia Woolf

I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.

Alex Pettyfer

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

Anton Chekhov

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Darrell Royal

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Orson Welles

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Virginia Woolf

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Sarah Zettel