"However mean your life is, meet it and live it."

“We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars. (They are, aren't they?) Yes, the violence is coming exclusively from Muslims, but only because their religion (the one that has nothing to do with Islam) tells them to kill unbelievers, meaning people who don't follow the religion with a knife to our throat that has nothing to do with Islam.”

“One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.”

Source : "Think Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2014.

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.314, Penguin

“We completely ignore social media. Bradley Simpson also isn't on social media very much. I think we just try to live in reality as much as we can.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com

“Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running.”

“It's weird not to be weird.”