"GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high."

“I realized at a very young age that health is precious, and too many people don't realize it until it's slipping away, or worse yet, it's gone.”

Source : Sean Swarner (2007). “Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

“You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.”

Source : "Jimmy Fallon: The New King of Late Night TV" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. March 20, 2013.

“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”

“Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.”

“Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.”

“I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand”

“I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.”