“ I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted. Al Franken United States Senator
“ She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all. Alice Hoffman Novelist
“ I never felt I could be a complete professional without having won the British Open. It was something you had to do to complete your career. Arnold Palmer Professional Golfer
“ It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that. Ben Okri Poet
“ It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people. Bruce Springsteen Musician