Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are. Will you forever remind yourself, too?

It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...

It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.

We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.