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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.
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The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
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My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.
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Tennis is the loneliest sport
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.
