When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Even Solon Gregg was finding it hard to speak to a woman who had just paid hard cash for tampons and on her face wore the look of a woman who meant to use them, as advertised.

Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.