What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.', Andre Agassi, on Charlie Rose', US tennis player (1970 - )

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.', Paul Valery', French critic & poet (1871 - 1945)

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.', Unknown', Quotations by unknown authors );

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.', Chinese Proverb',

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.', Dick Werthimer',