"I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate."

“Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.”

Source : Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

“You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.”

Source : Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.6, Macmillan

“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

Source : 'To a Snowflake' (1913)

“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”

Source : "Violets and Vinegar". Book by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, "The Battle Done", 1980.

“The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.”

“The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.”

“I don't have any kids. Well, at least none I know about.”

“Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.