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Our sport becomes not just what we do but an integral symbol-on all levels-of who we are.
I just did not discuss my personal life, my sexuality with the media. That was my policy.
There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness.
The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.
There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down.
Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.
I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.
We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).
Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.
Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.
Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.