There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be

President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
Ben Saunders

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Ernie Harwell

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
Webb Simpson

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
Brian Lumley

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
Maureen Forrester

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.
Junot Diaz

God tests His people through hardship.
John Piper

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
Trevor Nunn