"We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders."

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

“Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.”

“Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.”

“Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.”

“I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.”

“The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.”

“Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.”

Source : "The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum". Interview with Amy Meng, www.publishersweekly.com. February 21, 2011.

“I think you have to be who you truly are and love who you are (to be beautiful). It's also important to be free and honest, enjoying life and having fun. In conclusion, ... I am who I am.”