"Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need."

“When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

Source : "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 68 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (1845)" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2017.

“Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.”

“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”

“I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.”

“The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.”

Source : "Victor Conte on Marion Jones' 'Poor Choices'". ABC News, abcnews.go.com. January 11, 2008.

“You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.”

“Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?”