"Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure."

“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.”

“A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.”

Source : Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011). “The Missing Collection by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Found; Sent; Sabotaged; Torn”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.”

“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.”

Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2016). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

“But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.”

“These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.”

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

Source : "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889