The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

I think we were too emotional to start the game. We got that big lead more on emotion than substance. And once the emotion wore off, we struggled.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.