"Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air."

“You have to train your mind like you train your body.”

Source : "The Brain-Training Secrets Of Olympic Athletes" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

“He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.199, Penguin

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.”

“Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.”

Source : Billy Liar ch. 1 (1959)

“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”

“To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.”

“I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.”

Source : "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed". Excerpts from instant messenger chats, www.wired.com. July 13, 2011.

“We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.”