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“The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.”
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“I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.”
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“If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.”
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“Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.”
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“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”
Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
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“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
Source : Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.575, Hachette UK
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“Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"  "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"  "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.”
Source : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK
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“Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!”