"What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt."

“To me, the housewife who puts her teacups unwashed in the sink because her husband won't wash them, is political. Every act is political: the things you do, as well as the things you omit doing; the things you refuse to do; the things you fail to do; the things you say, as well as the things you don't say.”

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”

“The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.”

“Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.”

Source : "Need to Meet: Kate Mara". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. April 19, 2010.

“Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet.”

Source : "Why Would You Share A Secret With A Stranger?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 23, 2015.

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”

Source : Francine Rivers (2012). “Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

“The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.”

“I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.”

Source : "Jus' Like That" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2003.