Quotes of the day, January 4

The practices are what I live for. They're so much fun, I think, just because there's not too much pressure. You're really pushing your friends to do the best run and put together the best run, and you're also just having a good time.

Red Gerard

• Friends
• Pressure
• Run

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

Henry Ward Beecher

• World
• Man
• Smile

We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

Eugenie de Guerin

• Christian
• Feelings
• Wise

Not at all. He's a Big Ten veteran.

Brad Soderberg

• Veteran

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

Ethan Canin

• Writing
• Medicine
• Emotionally