It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin.

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.

God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire; but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

The awakening has begun!

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.