Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-- Oscar Wilde

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only comparable to the joy of a good save.

-- Born in Moscow in 1929, Lev Yashin

I didn't like my right foot. I only used it for standing on.

-- Born in Budapest in 1927, Ferenc Puskas

No one told me we were playing the final. I thought it was just another game.

-- Born in Pau Grande, Rio de Janeiro state in 1933, Garrincha bewildered defenders with his naturally curved legs and became known as the 'Joy of the People.' He