"The trick is to never lose hope!"

“I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.”

“I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?”

“Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”

“What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. And a man couldn’t harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. He had to care about his crew.”

Source : Daniel James Brown (2015). “The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics”, p.134, Penguin

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

Source : "Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

“We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.”

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”