"I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking."

“I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.”

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.”

“When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.”

Source : Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.24, Penguin

“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.”

“A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.”

“Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton...”

Source : Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

“the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.”

“In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.”