"I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him."

“Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.”

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”

“My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!”

Source : "Meet Hellcats Star Matt Barr!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2010.

“Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...”

“It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.”

Source : James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

“To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.”

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

Source : Chris McCubbin, David Ladyman, Sid Meier (1999). “Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri”

“In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.”