All language is a popularity contest.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Sunshine is a light.May the sunshine brighten your path of life.

Faith literally means “to give up, surrender, or commit.” Faith is complete confidence.

We are not equal, we are two halves that make each other whole.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

Semper Dowland semper dolens.

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure - the eternal present, for it is always now.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You're going to be opposed.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.