"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"

“Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .”

Source : "Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 27, 2009.

“Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.”

“I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.”

Source : "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history". Interview with Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.

“Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.”

Source : Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus

“Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.”

“Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.”

“The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.”

“The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.”