"The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport."

“The assumption of all education is that learning will be directed toward constructive ends and I'm convinced that colleges should support students in their determination to be useful, self-sufficient, and productive.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

“I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.”

“There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.”

Source : Gary Player (2001). “The Golfer's Guide to the Meaning of Life: Lessons I've Learned from My Life on the Links”, Rodale Books

“I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.”

“I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.”

“I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.”

“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.