"I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own."

“Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.”

Source : Source: blacksportsonline.com

“I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.”

“We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.”

Source : FaceBook post by Britt Nicole from Aug 31, 2013

“I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over the means of violence is still so inadequate that I think state building remains a major challenge. And until the militias can be reined in and the authority of the democratically-elected state can really be firmly established, there’s still tremendous fragility and vulnerability in the unfolding story in Libya.”

“Without peanut butter, I might starve.”

“I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that sense as well. They believe that religion should be very much a private affair and should not be given special treatment. The State should not fund churches for example.”

Source : Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

“Endure the journey that you take to reach your top moment. You might not get there right now but when you do, remember what you did to get there.”

Source : "14 Things #MightyKacy Told Us After Her Huge Victory on American Ninja Warrior" by Dan Reilly, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2014.

“Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.”