"It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing."

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.”

“The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only very rarely situations where we can say he was being genuine.”

“For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.”

“When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.”

“In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.”

Source : 1990 Remark made to a journalist following the by-election victory of Liberal leader Jean Chre tien,10 Dec, quoted two days later by Graham Fraser in The Globe and Mail.

“Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.”

“If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.”

Source : John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.319

“My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.”