"Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand."

“Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.”

Source : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.150, A&C Black

“A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with something. At first Gregor raised a warning hand. He thought it was a rat. Then the creature lifted his head and Gregor recognized what was left of his dad.”

“The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.”

“The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.”

“You can't test courage cautiously.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.102, Canongate Books

“Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.”

“I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.”