"I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women."

“I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.”

“If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.”

“Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.”

“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Source : Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.331, Vintage

“Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

“In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.”

Source : "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

“Using clichés is a substitute for thinking”