"Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year."

“Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.”

Source : Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.60, Routledge

“Schrödinger's cat has a 50% quantum chance of coming out of the box alive and a 50% quantum chance of coming out dead. If you got in the box with it, the same would apply to you. So you really don't want to do that.”

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

“For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul”

“Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.”

“Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.”

“I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.”