An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

I've had songs that were spread out over a number of years, and I've written some in ten minutes, and everything in between.

No matter how good of a ball player you were, you can't keep going forever. You're not going to be able to hit .300 when you're 60. You still look around and you think, 'This is weird. Have I missed something?' Well, yeah, you have.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

We want the game to be attractive to a new audience, but you have to be careful because there are certain traditions this game upholds. Silence over the swing, that's always been there. That's not understood by those who don't play golf.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.

Of this at least I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time.

But it is ridiculous to condemn the faults of beasts and trees, and other such mortal and mutable things as are void of intelligence, sensation, or life, even though these faults should destroy their corruptible nature; for these creatures received, at their Creator's will, an existence fitting them, by passing away and giving place to others, to secure that lowest form of beauty, the beauty of seasons, which in its own place is a requisite part of this world.

And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.

Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other imaginations and other remembrances; and little by little patched me up again with my old kind of delights, unto which that my sorrow gave way.