"When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity."

“Coaching takes patience.”

“By honoring your words you are honored in this world.”

“My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.”

“After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.”

“I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.”

“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe”

Source : Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

“I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.”

“Because God is faithful, He can be trusted fully to completely carry out His commitments to us in Christ.”

Source : Jimmy Swaggart (2009). “Brother Swaggart, How Can I Understand The Bible”, p.74, BookBaby