"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them."

-- C. S. Lewis

“My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.”
“You can be strong and true to yourself without being rude or loud.”

Source : "Big interview: Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2004.
“There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.”

Source : Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.329, Routledge
“There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of â€˜Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).”
“You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.”
“The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.”
“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.”
“Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.”

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