"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one."

“I work out with alot of gay guys at the gym. I do, because my only goal is to get into gay shape. Now, you know what I'm talking about. Gay men are the most ripped kind of... listen... I don't know how strong you have to be to blow a guy, but I'm guessin', there is some muscle involved.”

“When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.”

“It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.”

“The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.”

“My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.138, Penguin

“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”

“Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Edelweiss Garcia i Fuentes"/ "L' Aznar destrossant la llengua catalana", www.youtube.com. December 28, 2006.

“What I'm talking about is the order of deportation, the sequence of deportation. It is almost impossible to move 11 million illegal immigrants overnight. You do it in steps.”