"All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game."

“I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.”

“One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.”

“When I'm up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction.”

“What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.”

Source : Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.721, Delphi Classics

“Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.”

Source : Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.182

“I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.”

“When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.”

“I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.”