"Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live."

“Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.”

Source : Shawn Phillips (2008). “Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Rest of Your Life”, p.10, Ballantine Books

“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”

Source : 'Public Advertiser' 14 November 1770, Letter 41

“My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.

“I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie Cellular. I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because its obnoxious.”

“When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits.”

“The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “Alice of Monmouth: An Idyl of the Great War : with Other Poems”, p.47

“The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.”

“Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.”