"It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards."

“What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”

“I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their anatomy seems to be the only defining aspect of their character, and I just find that untrustful and it straight-up offends me.”

Source : "Jay Baruchel on His Hockey Comedy, Goon, Meeting James Franco, and Writing for Women". Interview With Jennifer Vineyard, www.vulture.com. March 26, 2012.

“If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.”

“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”

Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books

“Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.”

“People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF.”

“The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education”

“I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed.”