"There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born."

“Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.270

“My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.”

“It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.”

“Really, off days for soccer players are just recovery days. You're trying to get off your feet as much as possible.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”

“I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day.”

“I shudder to think of that God would do something like that through me.”

“Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting...”