"Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries of life. It shows one that there are really no new plots."

“On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.”

Source : Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “The Solitary Summer”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

“The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved.”

“I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.”

Source : "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

“I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.”

Source : Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

“There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com

“I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.”

“Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.”

Source : Julien Offray De La Mettrie (1912). “Man a Machine”

“Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.”