You’ve got an emergency. Who would you call at four in the morning, knowing that they would get out of bed and do whatever they could to help you? Those are your friends. That reduces your Christmas-card list a lot.

(Piers Morgan, TV Host, in Esquire Magazine)

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

(Mario Andretti, racing driver)

Really really like this one.

You tend to do more if you have a good attitude about things, and part of that is getting enough sleep.

(Sheryl Crow, singer, in an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle)

You might think of Crow what you want, but this is good advice. Seven hours per night are your friend. Really.

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

(Mario Andretti, racing driver)

I think I’m reaching the top speed of my life right now.

I’m a risk taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

(Michael Douglas, Schauspieler)

A critic is, essentially, a fan with an IQ; a critic has to be a fan, because nothing other than love can sustain critical enthusiasm over the course of years.

(Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle Movie Critic)

Were I some sleeping Adam, to wake and find you resting at my rib, to share these things that God has done, to walk you through the garden, to counsel your timid steps, your bewildered eye, your heart so slow to love, so careful to love, so sheepish that I stepped up my aim and became a man.

(Donald Miller, in “Polaroids”)

I would rather have a prostate exam on live TV operated on by a guy with cold hands than have a Facebook page.

(George Clooney, Schauspieler)

Love is handing your heart to someone and taking the risk that they will hand it back because they don’t want it. That’s why it’s such a crushing ache on the inside. We gave away a part of ourselves and it wasn’t wanted.

Love is a giving away of power. When we love, we give the other person the power in the relationship. They can do what they choose. They can do what they like with our love. They can reject it, they can accept it, they can step toward us in gratitude and appreciation.

Love is a giving away. When we love, we put ourselves out there, we expose ourselves, we allow ourselves to be vulnerable.

(Rob Bell)

Never expect a thank-you, and never do things for a thank-you. That is very liberating.

(Lou Dobbs, Journalist)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

Characters in films are just as fake as characters in videogames. Neither exists. Why, despite the pivotal position emotional attachment has in game design, does film do so much better than we do? Are they better writers, or is there another challenge unique to our medium?

(Randy Smith, Spieldesigner, in EDGE 201)

Hiding isn’t working, and neither is whining. The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.

(Seth Godin)

My experience with becoming an adult is, you come to this place where you see that you have this set of beliefs. And you run up against things that kind of defy that. You get into a situation where there isn’t one simple answer and all the arrogance, all the surety of youth is either thrown back at you or it’s at least ineffective. And then the world is thorny, and the world is fucked up and very hard to manage, and it’s impossible to know whether you did the right thing or the wrong thing. It’s about being disabused of this idea that there’s a stone-cold right and wrong.

(Ben Affleck in Esquire)