"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die."
"... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope."
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Source: Nasdaq 100-Open. Interview with Bud Collins, Butch Buchholz, www.asapsports.com. March 31, 2006.
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