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.

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Lawrence Oates

It's a penis, Margo said, in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big.

John Green

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Samuel Johnson

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Carson Daly

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Henry Home

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Tony Blair

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Gore Vidal

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Tom Cochrane

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Henry Fielding

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

George Eliot

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Don Winslow

Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.

Lois Horowitz