"My mind-set, my mental game and my hard work is at a first-round level. I play at a first-round level. I've done things that most guys haven't done."

“I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.”

“Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.”

“The real need of the day is ... moral and spiritual rearmament ... God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.”

“I've never doubted my ability.”

“Be grateful for the love you have to share-share it, and it will return to you ten times over.”

“In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.”

Source : "Interview: Henrik Fisker talks new companies, the future of car design and ... minivans". Interview with C.C. Weiss, newatlas.com. December 24, 2016.

“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.103, A&C Black