Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

There is no sin except stupidity.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

Intimates are predestined.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.