"People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice."

“Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.”

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

“I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.”

“There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.”

“Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.”

Source : Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”