"Things always seem less dire when you're in the country than when you're outside. I don't exactly know why it is, except that people just have to get on with their life, so they do. And you don't have time to do anything other than keep going."

“Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.”

“[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

“I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.”

Source : "Hope Solo, Alex Morgan And Abby Wambach Excited To Run Chicago Marathon". Interview With Jordan Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

“Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.”

“He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.”

“I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,”

“Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Oct 20, 2011