"I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime."

“Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.”

“Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2010). “The Iron King”, p.178, Harlequin

“Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.”

“As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.”

Source : Arthur Cayley (1895). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley”

“The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.”

“I used to say... 'Don't sweat the small stuff -- not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.”

Source : "Christina Applegate: Why I had a double mastectomy". www.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

“There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.”

“Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola...”