When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

Donald Tusk

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometines as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

Paul McCartney

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

Stephen King

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.

American Indian Proverb, Oglala

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of American students have learned to critique tactfully?

Barbara J. Alexander

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Jesus Christ

You have to make your wedding day all about you.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ernest Hemingway

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Frank Herbert