"A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain..."

“I must always have fresh orange juice, alkaline water and hazelnut creamer for my coffee.”

“You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.”

“You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.”

“My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.”

“Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.”

Source : Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

“...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.278, Random House

“The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.”

Source : "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.