"There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say"

“Life without Christ is not life. That's the way it is...If you don't see Christ in everything you do, you are without Christ.”

“Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.”

“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”

“Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.”

Source : R. K. Narayan (2009). “Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher”, p.517, Everyman's Library

“I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."”

“How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.”

Source : Philip Roth (2006). “Novels, 1973-1977”

“The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 05, 2011

“If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.”