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“I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”
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“Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”
Source : Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.65, Jack London
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“Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.”
Source : "Monica’s Mission: Can the humiliated Lewinsky lead the charge against online harassment?" by Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2014. 
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“Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.”
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“I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.”
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“When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.”
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“I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.”
Source : "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.
