There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.

WERE TRANSPARENCY EXISTS NOT!, THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR FRUSTRATION AND DISASTER THEREIN

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

What are you? An after school special?

I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.