We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

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.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.