"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."

“It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.”

“Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.”

“I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.”

“Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.”

“Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”

Source : Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.150

“Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.”

“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.”

“Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?”