I think the one thing that athletics prepared me for thats been more beneficial than anything has been the humbling times.
Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
What is without periods of rest will not endure.
The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
No single expression denotes love. It's so complex it requires combinations of expressions. These create an identifiable look. You see something like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers.
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice. . . and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.