"Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure."

“We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.”

“It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.”

“Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.”

“I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. As a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and that's something that we should start to implement for a lot of women.”

Source : "Questions About Where Miss U.S.A. Really Lives". ABC news, abcnews.go.com. June 14, 2014.

“Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.”

Source : Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. February 16, 2012.

“You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.337, Courier Corporation

“I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.”

“I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it’s not really marriage—not like the marriage you have with Cam—until he’s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.”