Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.

Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.

Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret.

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process