"Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance."

“The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.”

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

“Just be kind to each other. That's it.”

Source : "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

“Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?”

“Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.”

Source : Meladee McCarty (1996). “Daily Journal of Kindness: A Year Long Guide for Creating Your Own Kindness Revolution”, Hci

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”

“Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.”