"In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics."

“When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on”

“Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.”

“You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.”

“To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.”

“If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul R. Wilson (1994). “The spirit of Prague: and other essays”, Granta (NY)

“When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.”

“If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.”

“But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.”

Source : Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers