"Remember when you were a kid, you'd jump on the bed, and you'd have no worries in the world, and you'd just jump on it? The idea of that now scares the hell out of me. I don't even know what would happen."

“My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.”

“Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.”

“I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.”

“You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.”

“Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure ***** my progress in the divine life.”

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

“Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.100, Courier Corporation

“In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.”

“America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.”