When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.

Nothing lasts forever, ' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through the dirt on Richie's cheeks.'Except maybe for love, ' Ben said.'And desire, ' Beverly said.

..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.