"As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member."

“I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.”

Source : "'There's more to life than football': Jermain Defoe bares his soul on matters of life, death and the beautiful game" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

“I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.”

“Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.”

“You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.”

“The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization.”

“I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.”

“I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.”

Source : "Nathan Drake: unmasked". Interview With Justin Quirk, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

“Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday...”