"Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?"

“The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.”

“I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.”

“Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.”

“The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.”

“The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”

Source : Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett (2013). “I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson”, p.33, Harper Collins

“It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these [social responsibility] issues.”

“I wanna rule my destiny.”

“The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.”