Sometimes I wonder if life is all about one moment. Everything before and everything after is about that one moment, and we are all stuck there.
Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.
Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.
Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So. . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.
You make a mistake, you keep going.