"If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future."

“The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.”

“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”

“We must begin by admitting that people and situations do not cause us to speak as we do. Our hearts control our words. People and situations simply provide the occasion for the heart to express itself.”

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

Source : Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

“I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.”

“We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.”

“There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.”