"I have a jaundiced eye but a young mind."

“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

“I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.”

“If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!”

Source : Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

“I think if you forget your roots you're lost. It helps to ground you.”

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“You've been told that you're broken. That you're damaged goods ... there is also Post-Traumatic Growth. You come back from war stronger and more sure of who you are.”

“Indonesia is one of the most scary and scared places on earth.”

“I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.”

“There's some idea there, and the power of it comes from the fact that most of the time you'll never be able to answer what it is. It's just there. It's just a magic moment that you can feel in your gut that it's there, and you're willing to go there and sleep there and go through the hardship and fight for it. Once you start answering it too clearly then the magic is gone.”