I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

Captain of our fairy band,Helena is here at hand,And the youth, mistook by me,Pleading for a lover's fee.Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.

Agnes Repplier

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.

Todd McFarlane

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow