"You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial."

“During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics

“Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.”

“A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.”

“When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.”

“Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.”

Source : Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

“We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East. We will also make that Putin knows we have brigades in eastern Europe to make sure we deter his aggression. Peace through strength works.”

“Most of us can't even begin to imagine.”