"Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum."

“I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.”

“if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.”

“Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.”

Source : "Safe Haven Offered by Bahrain". "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2003.

“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”

“Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.”

Source : "Another American Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola in West Africa" by Sydney Lupkin, abcnews.go.com. September 2, 2014.

“But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.”

“The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.”

“The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.”