If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge and if he's good the older he gets the better he writes.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

When a great team loses through complacency it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest logic loses. So expect more meaningless if not harmful 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar regardless of what I'm saying 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job to teach. His first school his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

There's been some research in cognitive science I'm told that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are as Pascal puts it so made that they cannot believe. To us when people talk about faith it's white noise.