Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Charles Dickens

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Earl Weaver

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Sir Henry Taylor

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Blaise Pascal

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Christopher Reeve

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Salman Rushdie

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Ann Coulter

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

Charles Laughton

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Art Linkletter

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Jim Bakker

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong

Thomas Jefferson

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

David Duval