"If you are not dead, you are not done."

“Success is more a part of who you are, than anything outside of you.”

“the devil never sleeps ...”

“An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.”

“Most people focus on the wrong thing; They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it's all the hard parts - the sweat, the pain, the tears, the losses. You make the sacrifices anyway. You learn to enjoy them, or at least embrace them. In the end, it is the sacrifices that must fulfill you.”

Source : Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

“Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.”

“The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together.”

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”

“The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark”

Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America