Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

The truth is in the kisses.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.