"We carry our childhood with us."

“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”

Source : "Quotable Cary". www.pbs.org. May 25, 2005.

“The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.”

“Modeling is a lonely business.”

“Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

“If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!”

“Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.”

“It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.”

“And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.”

Source : "Rise Against's 'Make It Stop' Tackles Bullying, Suicide" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.