"Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

“I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.”

“There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.”

Source : Walter Reuther (1961). “Selected Papers”, New York : Macmillan

“Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.”

“There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.”

Source : "The Office's Ed Helms, Paul Lieberstein on life after Michael Scott". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 28, 2011.

“In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.”

“Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108

“I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.”

Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways

“Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.”