"It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind."

“The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.”

“Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.”

“O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!”

Source : Saint Clare (of Assisi), Regis J. Armstrong (2006). “The Lady: Clare of Assisi : Early Documents”, p.22, New City Press

“However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.”

Source : Paul von Hindenburg (1921). “Out of My Life”

“I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.”

“No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”

“I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.”

“If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).