"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."

“It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not. For me, writing has little to do with thinking. I don't want to control the narrative. I listen to the rhythm of the words and dialogue and try to give the characters the space in which to say and do what they want without intervening too much.”

“Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.”

“All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.”

“Dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things”

“I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad.”

“Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.”

Source : Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

“Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.”

“He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.”

Source : "The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Vol. 3: From Major to Blair". Book by Sarah Curtis, 2000.