"A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion."

“Lines are very difficult to learn.”

“You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.”

Source : "The HBO Heartthrob: Kit Harington". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 12, 2012.

“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

“Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.”

“Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.”

“This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.”

“The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.

“Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.”

Source : George Bancroft (1866). “Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866”, p.42