"The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves."

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

“A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.”

“Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.”

“Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.”

Source : George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.129, Wayne State University Press

“If we value all readers, we must value all reading.”

Source : Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.171, John Wiley & Sons

“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2014). “Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker”, p.170, University of Georgia Press

“Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.”

“My mom cooked the same food every day - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was enchiladas, it was - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was burritos, it was still - tortillas, beans and meat.”