"For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life."

“Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.”

“A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.”

“I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.”

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

“Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

“A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability”

“True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.”

“There's just not a lot of inventory, and to find a shortstop or a catcher, or a centerfielder, that you think that could stay at those positions... they're very hard to acquire. Sometimes you have to overpay for them, because of that lack of inventory.”

Source : "Q&A: Kevin Towers, Diamondbacks GM". Interview with David Laurila, www.fangraphs.com. December 26, 2012.