"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."

“I feel like showering more than once a day or every day is such a white people thing.”

Source : "Naya Rivera says showering every day is a 'white people thing'". www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2015.

“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”

“It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.”

Source : "Ronan Farrow making mark as diplomat at young age". Interview with Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. May 16, 2012.

“I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.”

“Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.”

“When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.”

Source : David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.151, Hachette UK

“The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling”

“I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.”

Source : "Q&A – Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.