"After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else."

“Win with ability, not with numbers.”

Source : "Military Pedagogy - A Soviet View". Book by A.M. Danchenko and I.F. Vydrin, 1973.

“For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.10, Vintage

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”

“There is nothing more important in life than love.”

“The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those freedoms from you, you better rise up and fight and that's what we're doing together.”

“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”

“I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.”

“If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”

Source : Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC