"The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats."

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

“I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.”

“Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.”

“Fichte is a necessary step to both Hegel and Marx.”

“Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.”

“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

“I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.”

Source : "Longmire's Katee Sackhoff on Finally Playing a Character Who Has Her Shit Together". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 06, 2012.

“Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row