"I can move around the way I want to. It's a beautiful thing. I don't know how long it'll last, but I'll certainly take advantage of it and try to be part of shifting and shaping the culture and preserving it."

“It is a curse, being blessed with so much to offer.”

“Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.”

“Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.”

“the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1993). “The Penguin book of women's lives”, Viking Canada

“We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.”

Source : Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

“It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.”

Source : Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

“I hope you guys stay with me forever, because I will always love you and support you”

“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Source : "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.