I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.

Chaucer

Practice easing your way along...Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Smiley Blanton

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Gertrude Stein

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Peggy Fleming

Better to die, and sleepThe never-waking sleep, than linger onAnd dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Sophocles, Ajax (circa 409 B.C.)

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

Robert Evans

But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

Deb Caletti

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.

John Evelyn

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

Deb Caletti

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.

Hank Stram

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein