"To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love."

“I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

“We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.121, Harvard University Press

“I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.”

“I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.”

“The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject to the constraints of the physical and chemical factors that severely limit the action of all inhabitants of the biosphere. Put simply, convergence shows that in a real world not all things are possible.”

Source : "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

“The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.”

“I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.”