"People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display."

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Miracle of the Rose”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.”

“Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.”

Source : James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

“I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.”

“Everyone needs an editor.”

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

“When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.”

“Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.”