"The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground."

“I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.”

Source : Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

“A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!”

“When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.”

“I always remember liking school.”

“What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.”

Source : "Billy Crystal and John Goodman Talk MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, the Mike/Sulley Friendship, and Creating Younger Versions of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

“The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.”

“Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?”

“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.”