When I read great literature, great dram…

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Quote, saying and phrase by: James Earl Jones

When I read a book I seem to read it wit…

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote, saying and phrase by: W. Somerset Maugham

When I played ball, I didn’t play for fu…

When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun. . . . It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It’s a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Ty Cobb

When I look back on all the worries I re…

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill