"We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands."

“I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you can celebrate it.”

Source : Laura Mercier (2010). “The New Beauty Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to a Flawless Face”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

“I can't live without my iPhone.”

“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.467, Penguin UK

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

“Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.”

“Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charles Yu from May 11, 2014

“Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.”