"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners."

“Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.”

Source : Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”

“I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”

“I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.”

“When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.”

Source : "The NXT Interview: David Otunga". Interview with Aubrey Sitterson, www.wwe.com.

“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”

Source : Speech by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions, www.gov.uk. June 30, 2010.

“I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.”

“All gardening is landscape painting.”

“Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me”