We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger read more

We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger room in the center. We have to move from a room seating 250 to one that holds 560 people because of the interest.

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, read more

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time read more

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.

I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, read more

I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, but I was pretty nervous about how I'd be accepted. Ever since Day One it's just been great. There's been no negativity at all, absolutely none.

She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.

She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.

Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, read more

Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, but the next day we both still loved the idea, ... We knew how much work it would be, but the more we thought about it, the more irresistible it seemed.

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.

I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is read more

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.