"What you fuel your body with is pretty crucial to how you perform."

“Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.”

“It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.”

“It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future.”

“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.5, Random House

“I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.”

“My mom is the best. She's so nuts.”

Source : "Theo Rossi Talks Sons of Anarchy: Brick Season 4". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. October 4, 2011.

“O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.”

“Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.”

Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”