"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career..."

“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.”

“When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.”

“We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.”

Source : Alice Childress (2000). “A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich”, p.37, Penguin

“The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.”

Source : James Theodore Bent, Al. N. Oikonomidēs (1965). “Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks”, Chicago, Argonaut

“Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.”

Source : Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.130, Hachette UK

“Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.”