"Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker."

“Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.”

Source : Eknath Easwaran “How to Meditate: first chapter "Meditation on a Passage" from "Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice"”, Nilgiri Press

“Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive”

“Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.”

“The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting, I push myself so I am at the edge of discomfort...Later, it will be time for consideration and reconsideration, slow, careful revision and editing. But on the first draft I have to achieve velocity, just as you do if you want the bike to balance.”

“Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?”

Source : Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.12, 谷月社

“I don't believe in dreams. I believe in going after it.”

“There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.”

“There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.”