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“The crowd makes the ballgame.”
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“Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.”
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“It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters.”
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“I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.”
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“A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.”
Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.296, Island Press
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“Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.”
Source : Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.110
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“A Socrates in every classroom.”
Source : 1951 On his hopes for theYale faculty. In Time, 11 Jun.
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“Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.”
Source : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
