"If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust."

“Take nothing personally. Nothing is ever personal. No matter what anyone ever does to you, EVER, it’s not cause of you. It’s cause them, always. All you gotta know is THAT, just freaking take that with you everywhere, and you can just be happy all the time.”

“The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.”

“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.”

“I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?”

“Sometimes, you don't need a $5,000 guitar - you need $5,000 worth of lessons.”

“When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.”

Source : Elsa Barker (1928). “The Cobra Candlestick”

“Dude,” I said, leaning over the desk, “I’m about as psychic as a carrot.”

“Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.”

Source : Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.63, Broadview Press