It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.
You play games with people's lives. (. . . ) You forget that they are fragile.
Evil must always be fought.
A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her
Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
Want to play some Battleship?” I wasn’t leaving him alone with that thing in there. Chad armed himself with a notebook, and we went to war. Historically, war has often been used as a distraction for problems at home.
How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?". . . . these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.
Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.
All human actions are equivalent. . . and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.