"The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you."

“Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.”

“I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.”

“I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.”

“There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.”

Source : "Bidding Adieu To Congressional Trailblazers" by Liz Halloran, www.npr.org. January 2, 2013.

“Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.”

Source : Taiichi Ohno (2012). “Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

“two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.”

“I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.”

“Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler