"Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes."

“I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.”

“Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.”

“I never think that anything I do is courageous.”

Source : "Howard Hodgkin: the later, greater Hodgkin". Interview with Karen Wright, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 5, 2008.

“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you.”

Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl”, p.163, Hachette UK

“There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.”

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”

“Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.”

Source : "Pakistan must not be abandoned" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2001.

“We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot,”

Source : "Overcoming 'Creative Suicide': What's Next for Tom Cruise?" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. August 23, 2006.