"Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated."

“These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.”

“People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.”

Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

“Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.”

“J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.”

Source : Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

“I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.”

“Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.”

“I respect everything the District Attorney and Sheriff’s Office did to thoroughly investigate this tragic accident. While the process was long and emotionally difficult, it allowed for all the facts of the accident to be identified and known.”

Source : "Grand jury declines to indict NASCAR's Tony Stewart", www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

“It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.”