"It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,"

“To what do I owe the pleasure?”

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

“The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.”

“I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.”

Source : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Kiera Aaron, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.

“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”

“People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.”

“You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.”

“We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.”