"When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough."

“Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.”

“He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.”

“There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.”

“The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.”

Source : "Widening Income Disparities" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

“I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com

“What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things – the Bond…Every conflict that occurs – whether between husband and wife, social or racial groups – is resolved only when we can fully see and embrace the space – the Bond – between us.”

Source : "The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us". Book by Lynne McTaggart, 2011.

“An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.”

“Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.”