Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

It is in this darkness that I have found all light somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.

Coco J. Ginger

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Phil Lesh

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

Everything begins with an idea.

Earl Nightingale

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Isaac Asimov

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Julie Burchill

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there is never more than one.

C.S. Lewis

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Harold Rosenberg

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

Angela Merkel

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino