"People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile."

“I can push through a lot of things, whether that's failure or success. I don't know how to explain it. I've learned how to overcome things that get thrown at you. In baseball, nothing's for certain, just like life. You have to roll with the punches. If you get knocked down, you need to stand up.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

“In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.”

“Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.”

“There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.178, Transaction Publishers

“If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.”

“My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!”

“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”

“...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”

Source : J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.630, e-artnow