"Patience is the analogue of God's serenity."

“Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.”

“And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.”

“I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.”

“Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”

Source : Ernest Dowson, (2013). “The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

“I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.”

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”

“In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.”

“Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.”