"Go out and do for others what somebody did for you."

“If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

“Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.”

“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”

Source : "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.

“Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.”

Source : "TALK: Michael Azerrad". Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com. September 18, 2008.

“If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.”

“Nothing burns like the cold.”

“There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.”

“Put your backbone where your wishbone is.”

Source : Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.78, Penguin Books India