All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

Eric Clapton

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

C.S. Lewis

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

Gustavo Gutierrez

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Jimmy Connors

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes -- cats -- I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.

Sir William Watson

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

Jolene Blalock

Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.

Og Mandino

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Francis Bacon

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

Paul Muldoon

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Friedrich Nietzsche